Keith’s Blog

[Read this for an introduction to what I'm talking about].
Now that we’ve got our FrameMaker documents in XML, how can we exploit their new format? One of the first things I did was to create new ways of reading (eventually changing) the simple data stored within them. This isn’t all that earth-shattering, but when you [...]

I gave a short talk at the first North Bay Ruby Users Group last Thursday (Feb 15, 2007) about my recent work implementing an Atom Publishing Protocol library in Ruby. Here’s the presentation:

I’m pleased to re-announce a new Ruby Users Group for folks north of San Francisco (or who like to go to Sebastopol, CA): the North Bay Ruby Users Group.
Our first meeting is this week; February 15th, 2007 at 7:00pm. O’Reilly has graciously offered us a place to meet, so we’ll be holding the meetings [...]

There are a ton of interesting take-aways from The
Landscape of Parallel Computing Research: A View from Berkeley, a nice, readable introduction to what a multidisciplinary
group of Berkeley researchers think might be the future of parallel computing. I’d like to share just one that really got me thinking (from page 35):
It is striking, however, that research [...]

[Read this for an introduction to what I'm talking about].
The first step of doing anything useful with MX is the ability to get back out into MIF. Thankfully, this is an entirely trivial job in XSLT.
[This code thanks to my boss, Andrew Savikas.]

<?xml version=”1.0″?>
<xsl:stylesheet version=”1.0″
xmlns:xsl=”http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform”>
<!– author: Andrew Savikas, O’Reilly Media –>

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My O’Reilly colleague Andy Bruno has just written a pair of posts on converting FrameMaker’s MIF (link may be old/die) format into XML (henceforth ‘MX’). I’ll be writing a few posts outlining the ways in which we’ve leveraged MX at O’Reilly.
[Update: Series continues here with getting back into MIF, and reading bookfiles.]

I just spent a few minutes enjoying Mongrel and SVG::Graph while helping Rob visualize his Amazon Sales Rank for his book.
The code is available here with a running (maybe) example here. If all goes well, that should show you an SVG graph (thanks, Firefox) showing the changes in sales rank over time.
Rob’s code [...]