# Introduction

*A companion to the Glorified Plumbing Blog*

## A Note From The Author.

This GitBook is a personal notebook of tidbits of information I have gathered over my years of engineering. This book is in its early days, and I am only just starting to populate it.

The first article is about Jira task size estimation; I just found two scraps of paper on my desk with these notes. In an effort to clean up I am moving them to my electronic notebook.

This will be typical of how I will grow this book. Several entries on one day, then a lull of months with no activity.

## Book Samples

This GitBook is really a personal notebook that I’ve repurposed as a companion to both my [blog](https://glorifiedplumbing.blog) and my work-in-progress [book](https://leanpub.com/theguidetoi2cdebugging).

Some of the chapters here are early samples or drafts from the book itself. The book is built from Markdown files with embedded LaTeX and HTML, which are optimized for PDF and EPUB output via Pandoc. As a result, GitBook may not always render things perfectly—especially equations and formatting.

While I aim to keep the blog and book polished, this notebook is a bit looser. It’s where I catch ideas, share useful bits, and gradually shape things up for publication.


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