Month: August 2010
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Google Wave to dissipate – The H Open Source: News and Features
Google Wave to dissipate – The H Open Source: News and Features
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O’Reilly Media’s “HTML5: Up and Running” is out – are you ready for HTML5?
HTML5: Up and Running – O’Reilly Media This book appeared in their Up and Running series, which is not to be confused with their other series The Definitive Guide. Here is the text from the back page: If you don’t know about the new features available in HTML5, now’s the time to find out. This…
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on the French/English words “vengeance” and “revanche”
I was recently communicating with “somebody” on a revanche-seeking person, and “somebody” was creating this german word vingativ from the Portuguese word <
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ruby and PDF
the speaker: Lukas Rieder working for “paper c” some approaches writing PDF … act as flying saucer … UNIX tools xpdf : $ pdftotext -layout -enc UTF-8 … pdftk $ pdftk compressed.pdf uncompress output uncompressed.pdf imagemagick $ convert … # e.g. towards JPEG the speaker wrapped some unix tools and called that “PdfUtils”, and released…
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WAR! It’s Patton v. Rommel: Vic Gundotra Will Lead Google To Victory In Social War With Facebook
WAR! It’s Patton v. Rommel: Vic Gundotra Will Lead Google To Victory In Social War With Facebook
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APRESS.COM : Writing Perl Modules for CPAN : 9781590590188
APRESS.COM : Writing Perl Modules for CPAN : 9781590590188 The book is not spick-and-span, but IMHO just as Perl itself red-hot. When I held that paper book in my hands again this evening, it came to my mind, this would make a rather interesting topic for a course – no sooner said than done! (indeed!)…
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using the XSLT scissors on jobs.perl.org
The Honorable Grey Temples Guy in Charge of jobs.perl.org didn’t show the slightest interest within months. I had asked him, whether he couldn’t make that thing restrictable on the “Terms of employment”. Their RSS feed is rather readable XML, the information is embedded within a nice tag: Thanks for that! So this will be one my next…
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“you make me feel like …”
Love Note WIN – FAIL Blog: Epic Fail Funny Pictures and Funny Videos of Owned, Pwned and Fail Moments
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my blogs, my blog followers, my IM contacts, Jabber SPAM
I have no idea, how often my blog articles get read. I have no idea, whether my friends read my blogs. I am not too optimistic there. But I do have quite an extensive list of IM contacts. And there is that nice book on XMPP resp. Jabber at O’Reilly’s. Why not write an application,…