Photo Included in "Schmap Scotland Second Edition"

I'm way behind on posting, and you can expect to see a flurry of posts in the coming days. Or at least, a relative flurry.

In the meantime, here's a quickie. I traveled to Edinburgh, Scotland in April of2005 for a multi-day workshop on Configuration Management, organized by Paul Anderson, the author of LCFG. This is an important workshop in Puppet's history, because I had just that month decided to go full time on Puppet, in large part because of my frustration with meetings like this -- lots of talk, lots of agreement that things needed to change, but mostly inaction (along with a lot of people saying my whole Resource-based approach was silly and uninteresting).

The primary upsides of the workshop for me were that I was able to spend a good number of hours picking the brain of Andrew Hume, who is wicked smart and not afraid to tell you you're being a dumbass, and I was also able to borrow a bike from another attendee, Kevin Cambpell (I can't seem to find a good page for him on line) and go for a relatively wide-ranging tour around Edinburgh.

So, strangely (and completely unrelated to Puppet), I got a request to have one of my photos from that trip included in some kind of annual photo collection from Scotland. Naturally I said yes. It's not my favorite photo in that set by any means, but hey, it's my first published photo so I'm proud.

Mon, 31 Mar 2008 | Tags: luke, photo, flickr, scotland