Let's say you want to self-publish an ebook and a print-on-demand paperback book.
This isn't impossible, nor is it particularly easy. Here's what I've learned.
You've got two obvious paths to make sure your EPUB book and your print-on-demand book match:
As noted in Finished Moving: Lessons Learned link rot is real.
Links vanish.
I've got 23 ancient (2004 to 2006, ancient) posts with clearly broken links. These are easy to identify because the service vanished years ago.
The tricky part is figuring out of there's any content worth preserving. In …
more ...Moved everything from blogger.com to "here" (https://slott56.github.io).
What did I learn?
Back in the early '00's (up to …
I have a very large, static site with 10+ years of stuff about my boat. Most of it is pretty boring. http://www.itmaybeahack.com/TeamRedCruising/
I started with iWeb. It was very -- well -- 2000-ish look and feel. Too many pastels and lines and borders.
In 2012, I switched to …
more ...Read this: http://thesweetsetup.com/apps/our-favorite-pro-writing-app-for-mac/
What I have been doing instead of using these sophisticated, integrated writing tools?
I use OmniOutliner. https://www.omnigroup.com/omnioutliner I've used it for years. It does a lot of things. Most notably, I can create multiple columns so that I can …
more ...I'm looking at code (as a man does) and I can't remember if there's a class that does X. There's a lot of code. I wrote almost all of it. And -- maybe it's the gin -- but I just can't recall if there's an X. It seems like there should be …
more ...See http://www.dexy.it Wow. That seems cool. I write. A lot. I've tried a lot of tool chains. A lot. And I mean non-trivial "try". Whole books. Hundreds of pages. LEO + my own HTML Templates. A lot of fun at first. An outliner that generates RST is a …
more ...I'm a big fan of plain-text tools. Source Code. ReStructuredText. LaTeX.
I'm not a big fan of proprietary file formats and document formats that are difficult or impossible to decode. JSON and XML rock. .XLS files are painful and difficult to work with.
UML Diagrams are a particularly odious problem …
more ...In looking at Application Lifecycle Management (see "ALM Tools"), I had found that SCons appears to be pretty popular. It's not as famous as all the make variants, or Apache Ant or Apache Maven, but it seems to have a niche in the forest of Build Automation Software.
While it …
more ...Got this question recently.
I’m looking for an HTML editor that fits into my price range (free of course). I don’t need to do anything fancy, just vanilla HTML to run on an Apache server ..., and maybe some PHP down the line. Can you recommend any open source …more ...