February 4th, 2009
I will have the pleasure of speaking twice at XML Prague 2009, once on my own and once as a co-presenter:
- Testing XSLT — An update and expansion of my previous talk on testing XSLT presented in less time. How can that be? Simple, really: put more in the conference paper, direct attendees to the paper, and spend more of the presentation doing demonstrations.
- Imagining, building and using an XSLT virtual machine — The why and what of the open source Xcruciate XML-based server. Or the why, what, and Howe of Xcruciate, since I’m the second presenter with Mark Howe of Cyberporte, who provides the ideas behind Xcruciate and its related projects.
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January 26th, 2009
I used to think that the open source xs3p schema documentation generator stylesheet from the now-defunct http://titanium.dstc.edu.au/ was the secret sauce behind the remarkably similar graphical XML schema representations of both <oXygen/> and XML Spy. I was wrong: a modified version of xs3p is bundled with <oXygen/> and is used when generating printed documentation, and xs3p may still be included in XML Spy (though it’s unlikely since its currently not listed on their third-party licenses page), but even in its titanium days, it didn’t do any graphical representations of a schema.
Does anybody know of an open source toolkit that can produce that sort of graphical representation?
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January 25th, 2009
The replacement for my venerable Fujitsu P1120 is a Fujitsu P1630 running Ubuntu 8.10.
The netbook form-factor was important to me long before the term “netbook” was a twinkle in a marketing person’s eye, Read the rest of this entry »
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January 2nd, 2009
I quite like the online Japanese dictionary at http://jisho.org/. I found it when I was checking the spelling of the name I gave my new laptop. In this age of netbooks with the same form factor, even though I need the extra horsepower and much as I like it, I call the laptop takai.
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November 26th, 2008
Banks like to trumpet the speed of their online banking services. Ha! Electronic transfers takes 3-4 working days, unless you pay extra to stop the bank from holding onto your money. Read the rest of this entry »
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October 24th, 2008
The W3C Japanese Layout Task Force (JLTF) has a working draft of “Requirements of Japanese Text Layout” available at http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/WD-jlreq-20081015/.
It is an impressive body of work that the JLTF has been working on for a while. This is the current iteration of the document for which I went to a meeting in Tokyo last September, and I went to the W3C Technical Plenary in Mandelieu this week specifically for the JLTF meeting reviewing the working draft.
The task force is looking for feedback (to www-i18n-comments@w3.org) by 15 November 2008.
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October 5th, 2008
It was interesting to learn about letterpress printing at the National Print Museum workshop by printing a letterhead based on the letterhead I produce on the computer. I had fun; doing the 36pt “Menteith” was a doddle; the instructor, Con, was great, and very helpful when it came to letterspacing “CONSULTING”; but, boy, 8pt text takes a long time when done by hand, especially when you don’t know the layout of letters in the case. Read the rest of this entry »
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October 4th, 2008
xmlroff 0.6.1 is at http://xmlroff.org/download/xmlroff-0.6.1.tar.gz.
xmlroff 0.6.1 features SVG external graphics rendered as vectors in the Cairo backend and table column order respecting writing mode.
Thanks go to lode leroy for the Cairo fix.
xmlroff is discussed on the xmlroff-list@xmlroff.org mailing list (subscription required) and on the #xmlroff channel at oftc.net.
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September 7th, 2008
I was at the National Print Museum in Dublin for their open day last weekend, and I’ll be back there next weekend for a workshop on letterpress printing.
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September 7th, 2008
It took two upgrade cycles — from 7.04 to 7.10 then from 7.10 to 7.04 — to upgrade the P1120 to Xubuntu 8.04. Neither went smoothly Read the rest of this entry »
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