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世界文字书写系统和书法之美

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体验汉字、日文、韩文、印度文、藏文等各国书面文字及其书法之美。

The Beauty Of Typography: Writing Systems And Calligraphy Of The World

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五月 19th, 2010 at 12:45 下午

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电子书从PDF转ePub格式(手机电子书)

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越来越多智能手机/移动设备的用户需要离线阅读电子书。

ePub是大部分移动设备都支持的移动电子书格式。你手头的那堆PDF格式的电子书可以利用这篇帖子介绍的一个叫Calibre的自由软件工具转化为ePub格式。

How to convert PDF files to ePub files to read on your iPad with iBooks (simplehelp.net)

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五月 10th, 2010 at 10:55 上午

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How to Document Wisely, by Robert L. Read

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Writing good documentation is, first of all, good writing.

…write self-explanatory code and only document code in the places that you cannot make it clear by writing the code itself.

Excerpt from How to be a Programmer.

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四月 30th, 2010 at 12:19 下午

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Scads: Scale-independent storage for social computing applications

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Scads: Scale-independent storage for social computing applications http://radlab.cs.berkeley.edu/publication/185

RadLab at UC Berkeley is proposing a new database architecture trying to get the best of both worlds: 1) easy scalability of key-value data store and 2) rich SQL-like features.

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四月 15th, 2010 at 4:51 下午

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Opinion: The story BCG offered me $16,000 not to tell

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The Tech Online Edition, By Keith Yost

“I’m a free marketeer. I believe that voluntary exchange is not just a good method of incentivizing people to provide their labor and talents to society, but a robust moral system — goods and services represent tangible benefit to people, market prices represent the true value of goods in society, and wages represent the value that a worker provides to others.”

Read more at: http://tech.mit.edu/V130/N18/dubai.html

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四月 13th, 2010 at 4:50 下午

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MIT’s oldest and largest newspaper

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The Tech Online Edition, MIT’s oldest and largest newspaper & the first newspaper published on the web:

http://tech.mit.edu/

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四月 12th, 2010 at 4:50 下午

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一份技术文档和价值千亿的新行业

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IBM是个人电脑(PC)硬件的最早制造商之一,通过和微软和Intel的合作,同时开放了基于DOS的软件开发平台,为全世界的 应用软件开发厂商提供了一个通用的计算机平台。

这个经典的IBM+微软+Intel技术平台,必须依赖一套内容丰富准确的技术文档才能让软件开发商的程序员学会如何为平台写软件:

IBM-PC Technical Reference Manual

后记:

这份文档其实只是一个工具,IBM这个做法的基于这样的信息技术经济学常识:IBM PC平台的其它部件产品(视频卡、内存等)都是附属品(complement),IBM通过这份文档让其它配件厂商更容易兼容IBM PC架构的计算机,从而提高PC硬件的市场需求,降低消费者购买PC的整体价格。

更多解释可参考这篇经典博文:http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/StrategyLetterV.html

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四月 11th, 2010 at 8:28 上午

Single-sourcing文档开发的误区

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名词解释:Single-sourcing,比较难找到短的中文对等词,暂且翻译为“同源多格式”文档发布方法,是指能让你只维护同一堆文档内容即可实现向多种格式输出的文档编辑和开发方法。

Michael Hiatt的博客文章The Myth of Single-Source Authoring对90年代开始兴起的、基于XML规范的single-sourcing(同源多格式)文档开发模式提出了挑战。他拿“社会化”网络应用(Web2.0模式)、基于“云”端的内容聚合器(content mashup)等新兴的知识产生模式来支持他的挑战。

采用XML规范实现编写文档源的工具(例如:DocBook XML、DITA等)来实现的同源多格式文档开发模式究竟是否已过时?我看未必,要看你是否把它用在了正确的文档开发任务。

每种工具都有设计的初衷和想解决的问题。Michael对XML工具公认的一些优势和价值提出了挑战,这里我只对那些我本人有实际经验的观点发表看法:

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三月 7th, 2010 at 10:43 下午

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W3C官方网站重新设计

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十二月 19th, 2009 at 8:45 上午

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互联网简史

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互联网简史

如果您在阅读此本文,很有可能您一般也花费不少时间上网。但是,既然互联网对我们日常生活的影响是那么深入,我们当中究竟有多少人真正知道互联网是如何起源的呢?

本帖将介绍互联网的简要历史,包括重要的日期,任务,项目,网站,其它能至少帮助你理解这个叫“互联网”东西真正是什么以及它的起源。

当然,互联网的完整历史可以长到能写一本书,本文只向你介绍互联网发展历史上的一些关键里程碑,以及1969年到2009年之间发生的那些影响了互联网的发展和演进的事件。

If you’re reading this article, it’s likely that you spend a fair amount of time online. However, considering how much of an influence the Internet has in our daily lives, how many of us actually know the story of how it got its start?
Here’s a brief history of the Internet, including important dates, people, projects, sites, and other information that should give you at least a partial picture of what this thing we call the Internet really is, and where it came from.
While the complete history of the Internet could easily fill a few books, this article should familiarize you with key milestones and events related to the growth and evolution of the Internet between 1969 to 2009.

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十一月 19th, 2009 at 11:00 下午

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