Ben Cotton

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Lafayette, Indiana

Ben Cotton is a meteorologist by training, but weather makes a great hobby. Ben works as the Fedora Program Manager at Red Hat. He is the author of Program Management for Open Source Projects. Find him on Twitter (@FunnelFiasco) or at FunnelFiasco.com.

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Authored Content

Department of Education seeks comments on open licensing requirements

One of the more effective ways to advance an agenda is to attach requirements to grant funding. The U.S. Department of Education has an interest in broadening the impact of…

Open source code isn’t a warranty

Automotive software issues, such as the Jeep hack and Volkswagen cheating on emissions tests, have made headlines this year, which means the public is thinking about software…

Does your company know how much open source it uses?

Licenses are the legal underpinning of open source projects, but companies don't always know how to manage them. Jeff Luszcz founded Palamida to help organizations ensure they…

When does your documentation need screenshots?

One of the common questions when developing documentation is, "How many screenshots should I include?" Answers range from "None!" to "All the screens!" A picture may be worth…

Markup lowdown: 4 markup languages every team should know

When I ended my Doc Dish article about why you should use a rendered language for documentation, I told you that selecting a language was a matter for another day. Well…

Now your Raspberry Pi can water your lawn

Open source has a long history of developers scratching their own itches, and few itches are as itchy as money spent unnecessarily. Lawn watering systems are notorious for…

Authored Comments

bcotton

29 Apr 2018

How to use FIND in Linux

You need to escape the parentheses with backslashes, otherwise the shell try to interpret it as a command group to run in a subshell.

I'll let the site admins know about the email domain issue. Thanks for letting us know.

bcotton

27 Apr 2018

How to use FIND in Linux

Glad you liked it, Scott. `find` is like an onion: there's always another layer to peel back and discover. And if you're not careful, it can make you cry.