Jonathan Oxer
[Blog]
>> I have my own O'Reilly page now! Freaky.
Fri, Feb 24th 10:44am 2006 >> Writing
It's just a teensy bit disconcerting. I came across this totally by accident while looking at other things, I didn't even know it existed:
www.oreillynet.com/cs/catalog/view/au/2575
And that page has a link to this:
www.oreilly.com/catalog/ubuntuhks/
So now I get to see what the cover will look like! Cool :-)
It's just a teensy bit disconcerting. I came across this totally by accident while looking at other things, I didn't even know it existed:
www.oreillynet.com/cs/catalog/view/au/2575
And that page has a link to this:
www.oreilly.com/catalog/ubuntuhks/
So now I get to see what the cover will look like! Cool :-)
>> Who you gunna trust?
Wed, Feb 15th 3:47pm 2006 >> Bad People
Sometimes the funnies just write themselves! Seen today on The Age, and hardly requiring comment (except to say that the picture with the first story is made even more appropriate by the second).
Sometimes the funnies just write themselves! Seen today on The Age, and hardly requiring comment (except to say that the picture with the first story is made even more appropriate by the second).
>> Cool tools at O'Reilly
Fri, Feb 10th 4:28pm 2006 >> Writing
Just in the last couple of days I've been moving some of my drafts for Ubuntu Hacks into Aardvark, a wiki-based collaborative authoring tool being developed internally at O'Reilly. It's a bit laggy from where I sit half way around the globe but still very cool: it's excellent at allowing multiple authors to work on one project while tracking versions, editorial changes, etc. As you'd expect from something based on a wiki engine, of course.
While I've been playing around with it I've pasted in various random notes I've made for some of the hacks, so a couple of the entries in the system at present are really just dot points and snippets that don't make much sense to other people. Fine and well when they're only my personal reminder notes but I just found out today from the editor that everything in the system as of, oh, about *now*, is going to be released as part of the Rough Cuts program whereby random people can pay for access to a PDF snapshot of the book as it's being written. Kinda like an officially sanctioned leak ;-)
Which means that whatever crap I jotted down as private notes (and never intended to be seen publicly) is about to become, err, public. At least it gives me major incentive to get cracking on it.
Just in the last couple of days I've been moving some of my drafts for Ubuntu Hacks into Aardvark, a wiki-based collaborative authoring tool being developed internally at O'Reilly. It's a bit laggy from where I sit half way around the globe but still very cool: it's excellent at allowing multiple authors to work on one project while tracking versions, editorial changes, etc. As you'd expect from something based on a wiki engine, of course.
While I've been playing around with it I've pasted in various random notes I've made for some of the hacks, so a couple of the entries in the system at present are really just dot points and snippets that don't make much sense to other people. Fine and well when they're only my personal reminder notes but I just found out today from the editor that everything in the system as of, oh, about *now*, is going to be released as part of the Rough Cuts program whereby random people can pay for access to a PDF snapshot of the book as it's being written. Kinda like an officially sanctioned leak ;-)
Which means that whatever crap I jotted down as private notes (and never intended to be seen publicly) is about to become, err, public. At least it gives me major incentive to get cracking on it.
1 of 1
[ Back to top ]