Archive for the ‘ePublisher’ Category
Happy Snowman Donut Award
ePublisher 2010.3 shipped on January 13th, 2011. Those of us in Development gave a big sigh of relief. And our favorite Sales manager, Christopher Ward, presented me with the coveted “Happy Snowman Donut” Award.
But I’m not a developer!
I lack objectivity when it comes to programming. I enjoy it. It’s problem solving. There’s always a reasonable explanation. It involves building things. At least, when it’s most enjoyable it involves building things. I suppose when it’s least enjoyable, it involves fixing what you built, but I digress.
Getting ePub output into iBooks on iPhone/iPad
In a recent Study Hall, someone asked how one can deploy the ePub output generated by ePublisher to an iPad. This path has been a little unclear to me and so I promised to research and blog what I found.
Use JScript .NET instead
The ePublisher platform rests on top of the .NET platform. Even though the bulk of the ePublisher processing is done with XSL, you can opt to process items with any of the .NET CLR languages rather than XSL. I published a wiki article which includes an ePublisher project that demonstrates processing content paragraphs with JScript .NET. I [...]
iBooks thoughts
Since the launch of ePublisher 2010.2, which included the new ePub format, I have been spending time with the iBooks app to see how I like it. That’s what I want to talk about in this article. What are my impressions, prejudices, likes, dislikes and so on.
Building a better AutoMap
ePublisher includes tools to create designs (Pro), stamp them out (Express), and automate builds (AutoMap). The thing is, AutoMap, as it exists today, is not always the right fit for our users. It offers more capability than some folks will ever leverage. For them, AutoMap is simply too expensive. Others make extensive use of AutoMap’s [...]
Study Hall
I will be moderating an online session named Study Hall, beginning this Wednesday, March 31 at 7pm CDT. Study Hall is an informal online session in which we will explore ePublisher related concepts and questions. Study Hall will occur the second and last Wednesday of each month. Bookmark the link above to keep track of [...]
2009.4 and the missing feature
Life here in the Engine Room continues on as always; a combination of brimming potential and vexing challenges. I love creating new things. I love to solve problems. Sometimes I get to do both at once. But not this time.
__possible__: Google Docs in ePublisher
Here is a screen-cast of the GoogleDocs input adapter that we demoed at RoundUp 2009. A couple of caveats:
This is not currently available and there are no definite plans for making this a part of any ePublisher release. That largely depends on user interest (your interest).
The implementation is a demo. As such, [...]
Contracts, Commitments, and … !@#$?
About two weeks ago, on Wednesday, August 5, I had an “unfun” conversation. One that I and every engineer here at WebWorks.com labored to avoid. Our contract licensing system encountered a glitch and a customer was left in a lurch.
Where are my keys!?!
Gulp!