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	<description>Keith on XML, Publishing, Ruby, Birds, &#038; San Francisco</description>
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		<title>O&#8217;Reilly Release ePubs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As of today, 30 O&#8217;Reilly titles are available as Ebook bundles and many will be in the Kindle Store later today:
As promised last month, O&#8217;Reilly has released 30 titles as DRM-free downloadable ebook bundles. The bundles include three ebook formats (EPUB, PDF, and Kindle-compatible Mobipocket) for a single price &#8212; at or below the book&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kfahlgren.com/blog/2008/07/15/oreilly-release-epubs/</link>
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		<title>Never Have I Felt More Famous</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ah, the day my tent showed up in TechCrunch:

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		<link>http://kfahlgren.com/blog/2008/07/14/never-have-i-felt-more-famous/</link>
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		<title>Talk: AtomPub Makes You Cool at Code4Lib2008</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just gave a lightning talk at the fabulous code4lib conference. My boss at O&#8217;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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kfahlgren.com/blog/2008/02/26/talk-atompub-makes-you-cool-at-code4lib2008/</link>
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		<title>For heaven&#8217;s sake, please just install hoe!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kfahlgren.com/blog/2008/02/21/for-heavens-sake-please-just-install-hoe/</link>
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		<title>RescueTime Is Da Bomb!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been using RescueTime since the fall, after hearing about it from some YCombinator-related person. It&#8217;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&#038;api_key=86629e4a71bc4db6600064db02722ef1ad2dc0c3&#038;year=2007&#038;month=5&#038;day=14&#038;view_type=forever&#038;date_key=5a036d5573a6c3551e7f626a273c6d3874dff306&#038;widget_header_title=My%20Top%2010%20Activities%20&#038;widget_header_color=&#038;widget_header_text_color=&#038;widget_footer_color=&#038;main_bar_color=&#038;shiny=0&#038;width=370px&#038;height=275px";

Time Management Software provided by RescueTime
 
EDIT: I can&#8217;t get Wordpress to not screw up [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kfahlgren.com/blog/2008/02/14/rescuetime-is-da-bomb/</link>
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		<title>XML for Publishers at TOC</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
 
 
 
  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&#8217;Reilly Tools of Change for Publishing (TOC) Conference. It&#8217;s become a very impressive conference in just two years and had impressive attendance and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kfahlgren.com/blog/2008/02/14/xml-for-publishers-at-toc/</link>
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		<title>Hott! Work-Historical Shirt</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
 
 
 
  Production University Tools Seminar
  
  Originally uploaded by Norm Walsh
 

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

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		<link>http://kfahlgren.com/blog/2008/02/12/hott-work-historical-shirt/</link>
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		<title>ISBN10 to ISBN13</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As of the beginning of 2007, ISBN10 is dead. Now we&#8217;re in a world that allows &#8220;979&#8243; prefixes, though the following code doesn&#8217;t expect them yet&#8230;
Here&#8217;s some stuff to turn your 10-digit ISBNs into 13-digit ISBNs, naively assuming &#8220;978&#8243;, following an the API post doing the same from LibraryThing. There&#8217;s another one at isbn.org for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kfahlgren.com/blog/2008/01/24/isbn10-to-isbn13/</link>
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		<title>RubyConf 2007 Second Day Afternoon</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ed Borasky: Profiling and Tuning Ruby 1.8
Slides are available here. Cougar is the name of the project that this is coming from?
Is Ruby 1.8 Slow?
To benchmark: Collect a set of benchmark times, then normalize them, then compute the geometric mean of the ratios.
Alioth is a popular (if controversial) set of benchmarks. Using gcc as the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kfahlgren.com/blog/2007/11/03/rubyconf-2007-second-day-afternoon/</link>
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		<title>RubyConf 2007 Second Day Morning</title>
		<description><![CDATA[John Lam: State of IronRuby

Photo by dwortlehock
Who works on IronRuby? The core is: John Lam, Hiabo Luo, Tomas Matousek, &#38; John Messerly.
Why did John move from Toronto to Seattle to start working at Microsoft on IronRuby? He was in love with RubyCLR and couldn&#8217;t turn down the opportunity to work on a &#8220;real&#8221; implementation. 
Goals
John [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kfahlgren.com/blog/2007/11/03/rubyconf-2007-second-day-morning/</link>
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