I am obliged to disclaim that Keith Fahlgren made this awesome style within minutes of the site launch and I sat on it for weeks. I am lame.
There are a few easter eggs in it for other programmers to appreciate.
The same Italian translation available by default on the Simplicissimus Bookworm site is also now available on O’Reilly Bookworm. As with the other languages, it will switch to Italian if your browser indicates that Italian is your preferred language, or if you specify Italian in your user profile after logging in.
Thanks to Marco [...]
There was a sizable crowd and some good questions from the audience at our eformats talk at AAUP. I had to do half the presentation cowboy-style — no slides, no notes — when my USB drive turned out to be Mac-formatted and the slides had to be recovered from email. Thank you Kate!
The [...]
Bookworm has its second home in Italy: Simplicissimus Bookworm. Here’s their announcement.
I helped out with the installation but the very competent folks at Simplicissimus will be managing it from here on. Best of luck!
This Saturday I’ll be speaking on a panel at the Association of American University Presses annual meeting about electronic book formats:
Introduction to E-formats
Kindles, iPhones, Sony Readers, Google Books, e-pub, prc, DRM, no-DRM, images with OCR, page-based display vs. reflowed text . . . How do we put books in front of readers on the web? [...]
There’s a lot of discussion lately about optimal digital reading environments. I could go on at length, but here are a few of the thoughts that keep rattling around.
Optimal text size for human reading is 11 point type. I don’t know what the studies are actually measuring here — comprehension? speed? — and I should [...]
There were a lot of surprising comments at Bookcamp Toronto, not always in a good way, but the one that’s sticking with me most came in a conversation I had after introducing myself as a software engineer who works in publishing: “Wow, what a terrible job.”
Are you kidding? I think I have the best [...]
At BookCamp Toronto this weekend I released ePub Zen Garden, modeled after the pioneering CSS Zen Garden project.
EZG aims to inspire and promote digital book design. Like the CSS Zen Garden, it demonstrates that solely via Cascading Style Sheets (and in our case a cover image), a wide range of expression is possible. [...]
The second of two articles I wrote for IBM Developerworks: Doing More with the Django Admin (the first was Better Django Models).
The “Admin” is the administrative console that’s built into the Django application. It provides an easy way to administer content on any Django site. For developers who are tired of writing the [...]
The first of two articles I wrote about the Python web framework Django has been published by IBM Developerworks: Better Django Models.
Neither one is publishing-specific, but Django (like Rails and Drupal) is a great way to deploy a web application quickly and easily. (Bookworm runs on Django, as do many of my smaller projects.)