Month: July 2010
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Apache FOP gets a 1.0 release – The H Open Source: News and Features
Apache FOP gets a 1.0 release – The H Open Source: News and Features That’s funny: A couple of hours ago I downloaded it for the machine, that I used for creating HTML and PDF from DocBook Slides, here is a rather impressive DocBook Slides example. And I didn’t know, it’s that brandnew. I just needed…
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“The Ruby Programming Language” – THE book on Ruby by Matz
The book is co-authored by a 1st-class author this time: David Flanagan. And the book follows the lines of a classic book of the Unix universe: The C Programming Language by Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie.
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what’s the right Unix-ish software and hardware in 2010?
In 1994 I had no doubt: it’s a PC with some Linux distro on it. And changing my mind was out of the question until not so long ago. Now in 2010 I am doing things on a Samsung 17″ notebook running some openSUSE Linux, and I am doing things on a MacBook Pro with…
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how to make a rectangle image a square image using GIMP
I like reusing profile pictures from the web in my Google Mail Contacts aka address book. On Xing or LinkedIn these pictures not necessarily are square, but on Google Mail Contacts you have to choose a sub-square. So maybe you want to resize the picture appropriately, so you don’t cut it, where you don’t want…
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How to Build an RSS 2.0 Feed – O’Reilly Media
How to Build an RSS 2.0 Feed – O’Reilly Media Wonderful little helper from O’Reilly.
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weird error messages during the DocBook Website compilation batch…
Sometimes you really didn’t change anything crucial, and you find the new error messages just too obscure, then do this:$ make clean$ make realclean And most of the time the error messages ar gone. That worked at least for me.
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“Perl Best Practices” as a useful good night story
“Perl Best Practices” – O’Reilly Media I really like reading good night stories for my sons late in the evening, but I hate reading “Spiderman fights Hulk“, absolutely. Really! Now, I actually found out years ago, that it doesn’t really matter to the kids, what you read, but that you like, what you read to…
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“Judaism deals better with sex than Christianity”, says Swedish prof
Interesting article in a way, but then: we are in the 21st century – WTF^H^H^H who cares for Stone Age books and their ancient morals?
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3rd party Facebook applications – use with caution!
Right now there was yet another Internet service with a big Facebook button… When you press this button, and they ask you in a very tiny print, whether you allow them to pull your friendlist on Facebook, then press Stop without further hesitating! They are simply bad. You don’t want get your friends dragged into…