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Maven and Docbkx from Wilfred Springer
Had an interesting few days getting the Docbkx Maven plugin from Wilfred Springer to render the Maven book. It works well. I started out passing customization options to the plugin, but, in the end I...
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Publishing Minutae: The Many Spaces
There are man different kinds of whitespace Now, maybe I should see if I can get the DocBook XSL for Maven: The Definitive Guide to use some arcane whitespace magic.
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Writing Books in XML
Andrew Savikas wrote about an internal discussion of XML in the book production pipeline at O’Reilly. I think he and many of the participants in that discussion miss a critical part of the discussion....
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Common Java Cookbook: 0.11: Updated Lang and App Infra Component Versions
Chapter 1 and Chapter 7: I updated the sections that tell you how to download the components and changed them to include the dependency XML for a pom.xml. (This is in line with my agenda to push...
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CJCOOK: Updated All Component Versions
I did a quick pass to Common Java Cookbook to update some of the version numbers. Current release version is now 0.12, and you can expect a 0.13 release on Monday that is going to remove most of the...
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Self-publishing experiments (Lulu vs. BookSurge)
Jury is still out, I’ve decided to do some self-publishing experiments so I can get a sense of what is out there. I’ve uploaded a book to Lulu (I’m not telling you which one, and it is still a private...
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Another Online Cookbook: The Lift Cookbook
Check out the Lift Cookbook an online cookbook for the Lift Framework. This is an open source book covered by Creative Commons Attribution, Non Commercial, No Derivatives. The book has a Twitter...
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Get on with it, Programming Books are Wikis
I used to write books. It was fun, it took forever. It drove me crazy, and it involved feeling great about a printed artifact. Years of struggle and focus yields a perfectly printed, bound bit of...
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Egad, academic writing is harmful…
This is a post in which I pick on someone for a writing violation. Here’s Dana Boyd in a post titled, “Participatory Culture…”: Through a series of dialogues, we’re hoping to produce a book that...
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3 Ways to Increase the Impact of a Programming Book
I’ve published several books online over the years and the biggest hit was the series of Maven books that Sonatype published. Those books were originally published as an O’Reilly title, Maven: The...
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