Month: July 2010
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learning from others – a temporary home-worker’s experience
I really enjoyed working with my design profession mate yesterday. He brought his MacBook with him, and I also learned from him, what the MacBook substitute for the scroll-wheel is: a two-finger wiping over the touchpad.
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“the right tool for your job”
I thought, I should cross-post / sort of “retweet” this article “the right tool for your job” from the rails to the perl world. Of course, the words are different, and also the tools, but the professional researcher attitude is the same, I think. Maybe someone picks the article up and translates it into the…
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using SVG for graphics within HTML generated from DocBook Website
I learned the hard way, that SVG graphics must get referenced via EMBED, not via IMG. I do that now.But still…I created a “generic logo”. It’s white on a transparent background, the real background determined by the context. That’s the idea. But I found this on the web – now I am confused: How do I…
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editing XML documents in emacs using nxml-mode / cont’d
I was suffering for many weeks now with emacs on Snow Leopard, as I had forgotten that nice customizable variable nxml-sexp-element-flag. Setting that one to t (Lisp, yes!!!) really gives XML editing a boost. Now you can “move” forwards and backwards beyond entire tags enclosing huge amounts of text. I had been too lazy digging…
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this was a rather good day DocBookWebsite’ing
Migrated all relevant web-sites to DocBook Website. Simple HTML from DocBook documents looks quite a little different and not so appealing. I can only recommend using DocBook Website.That’s another good reason, why I want to spread the good word of DocBook in Berlin. Have a look at the block “my most exciting web-sites” in the…
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no more Reactions and Ratings on my blog posts
Nobody ever made use of them, so I rather remove them, so that the entire thing loads faster. Of course, you can always leave your comments, that’s for sure – so far 😉
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an article on railsfreak.com: the right tool for your job
My second thing to do this morning might me digging into this tweet by rubyflow, the twitterer: The right tool for your job A tweet pointing to an article on railsfreak.com.
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an interview with Stevan Little about Moose
Starting my day with an interview with Stevan Little about Moose, an idea I picked up from a tweet from perlbuzz, the twitterer. (Do I really have to keep in mind, that this will be picked up by ironman.enlightenedperl.org? BTW it’s bad, that they even match “perl” within words of my blog-articles, even if that does not…
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DocBook Website
All the relevant pointers in one place: Norman Walsh’s example on SourceForge – enjoy it!(IIRC he says, you shouldn’t regard the information contained in there as up-to-date) the example within the Website release on SourceForge is slightly more extensive the release notes for the current release on SourceForge Bob Stayton’s book DocBook XSL: The Complete Guide, chapter 31.…
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how to answer the phone in Portuguese?
I subscribed for a phone number in Brasília recently, that’s because my SO stays there for the summer, and that makes communication easier.Looks like an important person has had the number before for quite a while, and I keep getting calls from strangers.I don’t get away with explaining in my pigeon Portuguese, that I am Jochen…