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Rails in a Nutshell Manuscript Open For Collaboration
October 19 2009
Following hot on the launch of the Building iPhone Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript manuscript three weeks ago, I'm pleased that Rails in a Nutshell, from Cody Fauser, James MacAulay, Edward Ocampo-Gooding and John Guenin is now live and... read moreCollaborative Publishing: One Brand New Title, One Success
September 29 2009
Another site focused on collaborative publishing, Building iPhone Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, launches while we look back on the first attempt to improve manuscripts by engaging the community in an open and collaborative dialog with the authors, Programming Scala. read moreCollaborative Publishing Based on Community Feedback
May 21 2009
Traditional publishing has been moving closer to the web and learning a lot of lessons from blogs and wikis. Today we're happy to announce our Open Feedback Publishing System. read moreDear Adobe Digital Editions Team
May 21 2009
Adobe has made extensive contributions to the world of EPUB software, but needs to go a few steps further with their Digital Editions product. read moreMarch 03 2009
After being asked about ePub resources, I wrote up a categorized list of the places I'd go to find out more about the format, how to create it, and how to consume it. read moreDocBook-XSL 1.74.1 Released with Improved ePub Output
February 18 2009
Generate ePub files from your DocBook XML today using the first stable release with ePub support, DocBook-XSL 1.74.1. read moreO'Reilly Product Metadata Interface (OPMI) Usage At Tweet Length
February 13 2009
Start using our O'Reilly Product Metadata Interface (OPMI) with a couple of lines of Ruby. read moreHistory Repeats: Teaching Publishers Markup
February 12 2008
As someone who arrived much later to the XML party than most of my peers & mentors, this week's series of XML @ 10 years posts has been a wonderful history lesson. Today, Norm Walsh posted an even more surprising... read moreDocBook V5.0 (Committee Draft) is done!
February 06 2008
Via Norm, DocBook V5.0 is done. Woot! Committee Draft! Thanks to all who worked on this. Formally, too. ... read moreDecember 05 2007
Here's my notes from the last day of XML Conference 2007. David has collected some of the blogging about the conference.... read moreDecember 04 2007
This is the continuation of blogging from XML Conference 2007. See yesterday's post for more.... read moreDecember 03 2007
Just like last year, I'll be blogging from XML Conference 2007. Rather than imposing some editorial structure, this'll simply be a serialization of the things I hear from various speakers in various sessions. ... read moreJune 21 2007
Pointers to traditional media and blogosphere coverage at the TOC conference. read moreDocBook in the Wild: A Look at Newer Content
May 07 2007
Here's a quick follow-up to earlier post about DocBook elements in the wild. This time I'm focusing on five more recent titles that were all typeset using our DocBook-XSL stylesheet customizations. ... read moreMay 02 2007
The newly-formed DocBook SubCommittee for Publishers is currently researching commonly-used DocBook elements to explore whether a subset of DocBook 5.0 would be generally useful. I've been spending a lot of time getting O'Reilly's (DocBook 4.4) content into our new Atom... read moreRecent Posts | All Posts

