Threepress Consulting blog » teleread http://blog.threepress.org Threepress creates software for publishers, educators and authors. Mon, 09 Jan 2012 13:02:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Lessons from Unix for e-book development http://blog.threepress.org/2008/05/28/lessons-from-unix-for-e-book-development/ http://blog.threepress.org/2008/05/28/lessons-from-unix-for-e-book-development/#comments Wed, 28 May 2008 17:52:20 +0000 Liza Daly http://blog.threepress.org/?p=12 My first on the TeleRead blog is up: Small pieces, loosely joined. This reflects my thinking in working with epub these last few weeks and with open source publishing in general.

There are a number of projects I’ve got lined up and they’re all going to follow the famous imperative that good programmers should be lazy. The kind of laziness I discuss in the article (re-use and domain-specific languages) isn’t what Larry Wall meant, but I’ll maintain it’s a solid foundation for digital publishing.

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