Keith’s Blog

I just gave a lightning talk at the fabulous code4lib conference. My boss at O’Reilly sponsored it and he gave me the unexpected chance to come to Portland and learn about what librarians and libraries are doing (neat stuff). The talk was just a little on why the Atom Publishing Protocol was cool and how [...]

This is why people get annoyed about the silly gem install dependency mess (esp WRT hoe):
$ gem install heckle
Need to update 31 gems from http://gems.rubyforge.org # fair enough, you’re allowed
………………………….
complete
Install required dependency ruby2ruby? [Yn] Y # Yeah, I know you need these
Install required dependency ParseTree? [Yn] Y [...]

I’ve been using RescueTime since the fall, after hearing about it from some YCombinator-related person. It’s an absolutely spectacular application, and has really changed the way I understand my work and computer use. They also just released a cool widget:

var _RescueTimeURL=”http://www.rescuetime.com/widget/top_tags_widget?user_id=3215&api_key=86629e4a71bc4db6600064db02722ef1ad2dc0c3&year=2007&month=5&day=14&view_type=forever&date_key=5a036d5573a6c3551e7f626a273c6d3874dff306&widget_header_title=My%20Top%2010%20Activities%20&widget_header_color=&widget_header_text_color=&widget_footer_color=&main_bar_color=&shiny=0&width=370px&height=275px”;

Time Management Software provided by RescueTime

EDIT: I can’t get Wordpress to not screw up [...]

Keith Fahlgren at his TOC Tutorial, XML for Publishers

Originally uploaded by duncandavidson

I just got back from New York and the second annual O’Reilly Tools of Change for Publishing (TOC) Conference. It’s become a very impressive conference in just two years and had impressive attendance and [...]

Production University Tools Seminar

Originally uploaded by Norm Walsh

Loved this shirt. Blogged longer about it at XML.com History Repeats: Teaching Publishers Markup.