Running update-grub from chroot (e.g., recovering via livecd)

http://askubuntu.com/questions/145241/how-do-i-run-update-grub-from-a-livecd

and much the same information but a bit prettier here:

http://howtoubuntu.org/how-to-repair-restore-reinstall-grub-2-with-a-ubuntu-live-cd

Using dh_make

This was very helpful and I'm sure I'll look at it again.  It's very simple and really just for starting up and creating an initial and mostly empty .deb, but very helpful.

https://faceted.wordpress.com/2011/05/18/howto-build-a-trivial-debian-package-with-dh_make/