Chronicles of a Wandering Mind

Interesting links for October 29th through October 31st:

• CS193P – Cocoa Programming | Announcements – Stanford University iPhone application programming course materials
• Luke Kanies Wants to Modernize System Administration – O'Reilly News – On puppet and automation of operations and change management on hosts
• Anatolian Muslimhood: humanising capitalism? | open Democracy News Analysis – The first is the way the movement responds in practice to those who criticise Islam's patriarchal bias. The women we met from the Gülen movement were as impressively intelligent, as fully engaged in public life and as confident and outgoing as their equivalents in the west (see "Sex and Power in Turkey: Feminism, Islam and the Maturing of Turkish Democracy", European Stability Initiative, 2007). Women compose about three-quarters of the workforce at the Zaman media group, whose publications – such as the impressive Today's Zaman – are close to the movement.