Practical Ruby for System Administration

Acknowledgments

My experiences at Imperial College were life-changing. I'd like to thank Duncan White, on whose shoulder many an aspiring admin has perched, and who also has a supply of the most bizarre tomatoes ever to emerge from an English garden. For introducing me to Ruby in the first place, I consider myself indebted to Mike Wyer, one of the smartest sysadmins I ever met and certainly one of the most masterful administrators of clue to users. I also have to thank Tim Southerwood, not only for demonstrating that administrators can still be mirthful and well-balanced individuals even after years of service (hope for us all), but also for revealing that noodles come in flavors that could blow the side off a nuclear submarine.

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