February 2012
9 posts
The PA Report - Sexual harassment as ethical... →
A great article on a disturbing subject. And today, one of my favourite authors, China Miéville, posts a perfect rebuttal to such thinking:
It is depressing to have to point out, yet again, that there is a
distinction between having the legal right to say something &
having the moral right not to be held accountable for what you
say. Being asked to apologise for saying something
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Objective-See Interview →
A few weeks ago I had the great honor of being interviewed for Objective-See about my development setup and processes. That interview was posted today— go check it out!
WatchMy daughter Olivia reads a story about Maya, our cat. It is a tale full of angst and tribulations, but it finishes strongly with an existential moral, I think.
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Design & Build a Small Business App: AQGridView →
A nice little tutorial here on the use of AQGridView on iOS 5.0.
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Readium Open Source Initiative Launched to... →
So here’s the Big News to which I’d earlier alluded. The IDPF has got together a who’s-who of people and companies in the eBook world to work on an open-source implementation of a reference ePub3 reading system and container library. And of course Kobo is putting a ton of weight behind it. Also, me: I’m going to be working on this project full-time here very shortly.
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"Downmarket Genre Fiction" is it?
So the astute Mr. Gemmell earlier today made note of a rather elitist-sounding article over at paidContent:UK. The author of that piece rather laments the fact that eBook consumption is led by ‘genre fiction’. You know— everything that most people read; something — *shudder* — classifiable. Science fiction. Romance. Crime. Horror. Fantasy. Historical.
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So, is it just me, or does...
So there are Great Things afoot for ePub implementors. I have things being planned out nicely, and I should be able to make an official announcement & call for contributors in about a week, I think. Specifically anything about the frame layout model of WebKit/WebCore would be very useful to have in about a week’s time.
