Getting 2009.1 out the door

Posted on: May 5th, 2009

Here’s an update for those of you looking for your copy of ePublisher 2009.1.We closed out the code tree last week and certified our build (2009.1.20966 if you’re interested).  That was the easy part.  Actually, that was challenging.  We integrated our new licensing technology into the release.  It works great!  Getting it there wasn’t always […]

How to keep your wiki growing

Posted on: April 2nd, 2009

Anyone who has been working with wikis for a while can see we have come to a crossroads.  I’m not talking about whether we’ll keep using wikis (probably none of us can function without them).  Rather, the path forward to keeping our wikis dynamic and growing is murky.  I think we can find our footing […]

Wiki Gets Facelift!

Posted on: March 20th, 2009

I’m glad to announce that the WebWorks Docs Wiki has just received a facelift.Does this mean it looks different? – Yes. Does this mean it functions different? – No… well Yes. So what did actually change?We changed the MoinMoin theme of the Wiki to use a theme based on the classic Windows Explorer approach to […]

Content-centric Communities – Building Emotional Connections through Content

Posted on: March 19th, 2009

I’ve just returned to life at WebWorks.com after spending the past five days taking in SxSW Interactive. SxSW Interactive brings together an eclectic mix of doers, thinkers, and users.  How many conferences have you experienced where the attendees and presenters include Sci-Fi authors, journalists, psychiatrists, psychologists, marketers, designers, coders, and gamers?  People were as likely […]

Wiki Maturation – Tossing Tennis Balls

Posted on: February 13th, 2009

Have you heard the story of Quadralay’s 14 year old tennis balls? It’s a great example of what can happen when you fail to maintain the principles of business value and ownership.You see, back in the day (1994), we were working on creating this great new product to single-source FrameMaker 4.0 files to user-defined, text […]

Why change ePublisher licensing?

Posted on: February 5th, 2009

or “What just happened to my 2008.1 keys?” Back at RoundUp 2007, I presented the WebWorks ePublisher 2008 road map.  Development was excited to start work on the new feature set.  We were also a bit overwhelmed by the tasks we had set for ourselves: full FrameMaker 8 and Vista support (delivered with 2008.1), Eclipse […]

2-Celled Note Table

Posted on: January 22nd, 2009

Someone asked me about this at RoundUp a few months ago, and I’m just now getting around to publishing it.  I’ve just posted a tip for creating a two-celled note style table for a given paragraph style on the WebWorks wiki.The implementation uses the wwtransform:super resolver. We are working to make this the blessed way […]

Frame 7 to Frame 8 problem

Posted on: December 12th, 2008

We have discovered a kind of a nasty problem which occurs when you bring FrameMaker 7 documents created in some non-English locale, into FrameMaker 8.  This problem affects any text that is inserted into the FrameMaker 7 dialogs, such as the Paragraph Designer or the Marker dialog, under the non-English locale.  When the docs are […]

Page Template Preview Utility

Posted on: October 15th, 2008

As promised at RoundUp, I have posted a wiki article on the Page Template Preview utility. It lacks a number of things, such as good design, a clearly defined objective, among others. However, it was fun to write and I hope that it might be useful to anyone who may be trying to unravel Page […]

Why use ePublisher Express?

Posted on: September 13th, 2008

2006 was the year the ePublisher Platform became whole. That was the year WebWorks.com introduced ePublisher Express. It’s been two years now and customers still ask the question:Why should I use ePublisher Express?Why can’t I just stick with ePublisher Pro?ePublisher Express was the result of a focused effort by the WebWorks.com Marketing group working in […]