Still Alive!

I’m working on completely overhauling and expanding my class handout. I’m looking to turn it into more of a useful pamphlet rather than the bare-bones outline it currently is. The results will show up in The Missing Manual soon. In other news, I will be teaching my class: “The Astrolabe in Theory and Practice” at […]

Progress made and the new year

Haven’t posted in a month, but I have been working… If you go have a look at the manual, you will see several new pages. I hope to keep up a good pace the rest of the month.

Progress Made on The Manual

I added some sections to the astrolabe manual. and was able to make good progress in developing my own art for the various diagrams. I hope to make significant progress this coming week on converting my class handout into a manual

Manual Move

I’m not happy with MediaWiki as a back end for the manual. Good software, but a wiki is just not suited to what I want to do. I’m going to try the content management system Joomla. I looked at it to run the whole website, and I might still move away from WordPress if I […]

And so it begins…

My obsession with the astrolabe has gone on now for over 4 years. The number of projects is proliferating and I think it is time to make a place for them on the web. Over the next few months, as the mood takes me I will be modifying the handout for my astrolabe class into […]