The short-form week of 4–10 Aug 2014
11 Aug 2014
The week in review, 140 characters at a time.
This document was created automatically from my archive of my Twitter stream. Due to limitations in the Twitter API and occasional glitches in my archiving system, it may not be 100% complete.
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 08:49pm
Have (almost surely) decided the next release of my DocBook toolchain (XSLT 2.0/HTML5)
will require XProc, abandon XSL FO.—@ndw
@ndw I've been out of the XML loop for a year or so - I am curious - why abandon XSL-FO?—@EileenOttawa
@EileenOttawa Working group disbanded. Locus of interest/effort clearly CSS.—@ndw
@ndw Woah! Interesting. I have indeed been under a rock! Thanks much—@EileenOttawa
@ndw @EileenOttawa Thank you for the details. What's the tool in the chain that gets you to PDF from
HTML+CSS?—@webbr
@webbr @EileenOttawa I've tested both PrinceXML (oh, the irony) and AntennaHouse's formatter. There are
probably others and surely will be.—@ndw
@ndw @EileenOttawa Do you think that there will soon be a free tool for that link in the chain? At this
point, I rely on fop to get to PDF.—@webbr
@webbr @EileenOttawa I expect so. Might be already. Something that rivals fop shouldn't be too difficult.—@ndw
“@ndw: @webbr @EileenOttawa DocBook XML → "for-print" HTML → HTML+CSS formatter → PDF.” @CMaudry sounds familiar? ;)—@wohnjalker
@wohnjalker @ndw @webbr @EileenOttawa The only (enterprise ready) HTML+CSS processor I heard of is @AntennaInfo. Any open source alt?—@CMaudry
@CMaudry @ndw @webbr @EileenOttawa @AntennaInfo how about printing to PDF from your web browser? ;-P—@wohnjalker
[big shift] MT @ndw: Have (almost surely) decided next release of my DocBook toolchain (XSLT 2.0/HTML5)
will require XProc, abandon XSL FO—@jeffsonstein
Monday at 12:02am
Don't fall in love with your tools.—@haxor
In a conversation that started on Monday at 02:46pm
@eliasisrael by extension, can you not love sports cars, skyscrapers, or romance novels unless
you drive, build, or write them for a living?—@ndw
@ndw That would be overstating it a bit, admittedly. What I do think is that IFLS is UpWorthy
with costume lab coats.—@eliasisrael
In a conversation that started on Monday at 03:50pm
Monday at 04:07pm
Spent four of the last five days doing grueling physical labor under insane conditions.
All of my muscles are sore.—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 01:14pm
Tuesday at 07:03pm
Enjoy the little things in life, for one day you'll look back and realize they were
big things.—@Kurt_Vonnegut
In a conversation that started on Tuesday at 07:07pm
Working outside for a week. Weather forecast: rain. Weather: sunny. Tanglewood lawn
tix this eve. Forecast: sunny. Weather: torrential rain.—@ndw
Tuesday at 07:44pm
If you're worried about Ebola, which 100‰ of scientists say don't, but not climate
change, which 97% say do, reflect on your choices.—@pourmecoffee
Tuesday at 08:14pm
Playing Ms Pac-Man once a friend said "Life's exactly like old video games: Only reward
for success is having to do the same thing faster"—@studiesincrap
Wednesday at 04:37am
Wednesday at 12:55pm
Wednesday at 02:49pm
Norm Walsh @ndw honored with @OASISopen 'Distinguished Contributor Award' awarded by @scottmcgrath9 (Scott shown) http://t.co/YyE8iWtYvO—@fjhirsch
In a conversation that started on Wednesday at 05:17pm
@ndw The talk went well. Everyone probably wants to hear your take on it. Enlighten
us when you can. #balisage—@alexmilowski
@alexmilowski I wish I was there, great paper. Have you considered submitting as an article to
http://t.co/sGthwO7ASx ? @ndw—@rdeltour
Wednesday at 10:54pm
RT @RichRogersHDS: "Programmers want to program, and anything that takes away from this is probably
not worth doing." - http://t.co/y5hFssPb—@ndw
Wednesday at 11:01pm
RT @timminchin: Newspapers seems to be just adverts for fear. "Get your fear here! 2 for 1 fear!
Buy terror, get xenophobia free!" http://t…—@ndw
Thursday at 01:26am
Three days of dealing with Java and I’m dismayed by how hard it can be to write tests,
in spite of all the tools and support for doing so.—@whump
Thursday at 07:17am
Trying to copy multi-page example JSON from a PDF spec into a plain text file you
can test: Welcome to Hell.—@pgor
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 07:52am
Thursday at 09:06am
Thursday at 09:07am
RT @alexmilowski: What I love about #balisage : Completely fascinating bit on hierarchies and overlap in text that I couldn't have
predicte…—@ndw
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 09:14am
Thursday at 02:06pm
Thursday at 03:09pm
Thursday at 03:49pm
Thursday at 03:54pm
Thursday at 03:55pm
In a conversation that started on Thursday at 04:52pm
Assuming I wanted to buy an SSL cert for https on my website(s), where's a reputable
place to start?—@ndw
@ndw If you trust your browser, any CA in your browser is reputable. Who's going to check?
Get Comodo cert at CheapSSL or pay $$$$—@nsushkin
@ndw define 'reputable'… do you just want SSL-without-browser-warnings, or do you want
some security theatre?—@nevali
Friday at 10:04am
The real value Mark Zuckerberg has given this world is keeping all those emails that
used to be sent to us, kept all inside Facebook.—@rstephens
Friday at 05:21pm
Last night I put 8 things on my to do list for Friday. It’s 3:20 and I just finished
#1 #whyamisurprised #actuallynotsurprised—@cdavisafc
In a conversation that started on Friday at 07:56pm
Mostly sure I'm going to man up to https for my stuff. Haven't decided if I'm going
to move NWN to blog dot nwalsh dot com in the process.—@ndw
Friday at 08:00pm
"Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy." -
Guillaume Apollinaire—@quotesforself
In a conversation that started on Friday at 08:05pm
In a conversation that started on Friday at 08:06pm
Saturday at 08:36am
#balisage must-read from @alexmilowski & @ndw: how Web Components enable brighter future for XML in the browser http://t.co/TFpu8OvYe2—@sandersk
Saturday at 10:28pm
There are 10 types of people: those who understand binary, those who don’t, and those
who didn’t expect this joke to be in base 3.—@jacobian
Sunday at 06:55pm
RT @cdespinosa: The deadliest consequence of 9/11 has been the hair-trigger militarization of local
police against any disobedience https:/…—@ndw