A while back I was asked to present to the Configuration Management Working Group of DC. From that moment on I had an excuse to finish and talk about the Makefile I'd been dragging around formally since January and informally for much longer.
Finishing the Makefile
I started writing slides on the impressive slides.com then I realized I had to finished the Makefile to finish the slides. This mostly involved deciding on target names and testing target execution.
Finishing the Slides
As I mentioned above, slides.com is very nice. I had hoped to be able to build the slides myself with reveal.js, but in lieu of JavaScript skills I settled on using the slides.com editor. Later I exported and converted them to PDF with pandoc, which was not as nice (through no fault of pandoc, I'm sure; I just wish I could get a better PDF copy from the slides.com HTML export.)
Closed for Business
For month after month as I continued to tweak, the project-makefile repository README contained the following:
**DO NOT USE THIS** At some point I started using a ``Makefile`` in my development projects. This repository contains that ``Makefile``. **shrug**
Open for Business
Now it looks like this:
I now invite everyone to use and contribute.