Archive for December, 2006

Saint-Peterburg. No bears, just beauties

Wednesday, December 27th, 2006

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.

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consodoc is referenced

Wednesday, December 27th, 2006

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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Textual Confirmation is taking off

Friday, December 22nd, 2006

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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xslt 1.0 code isn’t reusable

Wednesday, December 13th, 2006

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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terminology

Saturday, December 9th, 2006

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

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creatiff

Wednesday, December 6th, 2006

Created an avatar for use in phpBB forums:

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bbAntiSpam press-release

Tuesday, December 5th, 2006

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

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wrapping text in vim

Sunday, December 3rd, 2006

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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