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 some working version, and the last download on another machine was 0.93.
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.
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 a 17″ screen.
I don’t want miss either of them. Well, the Samsung thingie’s resolution could be way better, but after my Sony thingie broke during my Leopard 2 main battle tank project, I couldn’t afford anything better than that, and the decision and the purchase had to happen within minutes rather than within days. Terrible pressure and no mercy with Linux folks over there at defense.
But now I do many, many things on that Snow Leopard thingie, and I terribly enjoy it and it honestly improved the quality of my life a lot. That’s what I wanted to state here and now.
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 to cut it. Here is, how to proceed:
BTW my designer mate doesn’t like GIMP, he prefers Photoshop. I gave GIMP a try for this purpose, and it did, what I expected it to do, in a perfect way, every try a perfect hit!
How to Build an RSS 2.0 Feed – O’Reilly Media
Wonderful little helper from O’Reilly.
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.
“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 them.
Last night I selected a book, which didn’t come into operation then, but with one day delay today it actually did so.
Pls find the title attached! (This referred to, when this article was a Google Buzz and there was even a picture attached. I do love Google Buzz, but the number of followers is rather depressing, I actually prefer not to know, how many usually read my blogs. And last week’s Google presentation of the Buzz API at Berlin.Betahaus.de with finest catering and unlimited free drinks even encouraged me to love it more.)
Now you may understand, what I referred to by: “it doesn’t really matter to the kids…“
You may even think, I am a bad father. I seriously don’t agree. Well, the useless social workers of the “youth welfare office” at Berlin might agree with you. But then, I don’t care.
Son#2 literally slept within minutes, which is otherwise never easy to achieve. (He can easily fought 2 hours against his sleepiness.)
Now this either has to do with the quality of the book, or simply with my son liking my voice. Choose yourself!
Son#2 actually started sleeping deeply in the middle of the preface, but I insisted on completing the preface, of course w/o even touching the acknowledgements. Sorry for that. Maybe I will browse them silently another day. I do find names interesting, and after 30 years in IT you do know a few ones.
After that I decided to get the PDF for $5 from O’Reilly’s, and I immediately went for it. That PDF is now on my disk. I even think parts of this book will make good presentation material at future Berlin Technical Perl Meetings, well, maybe Stuttgart Technical Perl Meetings, if the Berlin Perl Mongers are lucky enough resp. not lucky enough. Decide yourself, which way it’s meant!
This book looks like entertaining but educative literature, just the way I considered Larry Wall’ classical Camel Book almost 20 years ago. But I read it then in the Berlin Underground on my way to work or back home.
Pls have mercy and excuse my Bad Simple English!
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?
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 your experiments, right? Sometimes they also say: “Let’s find you some friends?” That’s about the same. Don’t! Just don’t!