olpa, OSS developer

In streets of Paris, Amsterdam and London have appeared billbordy with an inscription “No Bears, just Beauties”, advertising St.-Petersburg as a tourist direction. I like the screenshots: 1, 2, 3, 4.

While searching if anyone noticed Consodoc, I found a Spanish document: Introducción a las tecnologías y estándares XML by Manuel Collado. Here is a bit of English Google translation:

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Life is strange. The serious software such as TeXML or Consodoc are used by few people only. The side-development, phpBB antispam, is more popular than all the other products together.

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I’m building an XML site. One of the common tasks is to get a book by isbn. I needed 4(!) attempts to get it working!

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I can’t remember what is what, so writing it down:
* orphan: line at the bottom, the rest on the next page
* widow: the last line at the top, the beginning on the previous page

Created an avatar for use in phpBB forums:

Press-release: “bbAntiSpam Tools: The First Anti-Spam Solution For phpBB Forums Has Been Released“.

For long time, I wanted the following functionality in vim: I select text and say “wrap the text by a tag”. Now I’m formatting texts for HTML, and this functionality is so much required that I’ve got it.

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