http://kfahlgren.com/blog Keith on XML, Publishing, Ruby, Birds, & San Francisco Wed, 06 Aug 2008 18:08:53 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en As of today, 30 O'Reilly titles are available as Ebook bundles and many will be in the Kindle Store later today: As promised last month, O'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 -- ... http://kfahlgren.com/blog/2008/07/15/oreilly-release-epubs/ Ah, the day my tent showed up in TechCrunch: http://kfahlgren.com/blog/2008/07/14/never-have-i-felt-more-famous/ 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 ... http://kfahlgren.com/blog/2008/02/26/talk-atompub-makes-you-cool-at-code4lib2008/ 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 ... http://kfahlgren.com/blog/2008/02/21/for-heavens-sake-please-just-install-hoe/ 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 ... http://kfahlgren.com/blog/2008/02/14/rescuetime-is-da-bomb/ 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 ... http://kfahlgren.com/blog/2008/02/14/xml-for-publishers-at-toc/ Production University Tools Seminar Originally uploaded by Norm Walsh Loved this shirt. Blogged longer about it at XML.com History Repeats: Teaching Publishers Markup. http://kfahlgren.com/blog/2008/02/12/hott-work-historical-shirt/ As of the beginning of 2007, ISBN10 is dead. Now we're in a world that allows "979" prefixes, though the following code doesn't expect them yet... Here's some stuff to turn your 10-digit ISBNs into 13-digit ISBNs, naively assuming "978", following an the API post doing the same from LibraryThing. There's ... http://kfahlgren.com/blog/2008/01/24/isbn10-to-isbn13/ 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 ... http://kfahlgren.com/blog/2007/11/03/rubyconf-2007-second-day-afternoon/ John Lam: State of IronRuby Photo by dwortlehock Who works on IronRuby? The core is: John Lam, Hiabo Luo, Tomas Matousek, & 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't turn down the opportunity to work ... http://kfahlgren.com/blog/2007/11/03/rubyconf-2007-second-day-morning/