Firefox to support OGG in
Sunday, August 3rd, 2008 Write a comment
Open source browser Firefox is going to support Ogg Theora video natively without installing plugins and will support the new HTML 5 tag
This is great news since there has been a long debate about the HTML 5
The latest version of Opera browser also supports Ogg Theora videos natively already.
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ACM Crossroads issue 14.4 online fast, thanks to Emacs
Monday, April 28th, 2008 1 Comment
Just finished publishing ACM Crossroads issue 14.4 online.
This speed of publishing is thanks to Emacs. I use tramp mode to edit and fix files remotely on the ACM servers via ssh. Tidy with html-mode to validate and fix all markup so that the files are XHTML 1.1 Strict. Dired mode to rename, move, copy files, and image mode to check if images are correct.
I wonder if I can edit images (like crop, resize, convert to jpeg, compress) in Emacs. I know you can edit videos, so images can’t be more difficult.
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ACM Crossroads Online and Twexter updates
Monday, April 28th, 2008 Write a CommentFinally I’ve got myself around my online editor tasks and published issues 14.2 and 14.3 online of the ACM Crossroads magazine.
Also there’s a new digital version of issue 14.3.
Also published the latest twexter code at http://test.twext.com. Its now a very usable prototype. Soon automatic translations will be available. THEN it will get very interesting.
Its been a very busy sunday.
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ACM Crossroads 14.1 now online
Monday, October 1st, 2007 1 Comment
I have just finished publishing online the newest issue of the ACM Crossroads Student Magazine. This new issue is a milestone for the magazine, because we just switched from themed issues to non theme or at least no centric theme per issue. Now we are accepting all types of papers to push more content on the magazine.
Its been taking me a little more time to get the issues published because I have to resize the images for the web, from huge TIFF files.
Its starting to get easier since I learned the magic powers of ImageMagick. I’m going to write a bash script to resize every TIFF file and convert it to nice and light JPEG files for the web. This should speed my publishing process a lot. I’m a newbie in bash scripting and this looks like a nice little task or project to learn.
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Actualizacion de Crossroads
Sunday, February 25th, 2007 Write a CommentAhh, por fin despues de varios meses de tener el nuevo archivo CSS para la revista ACM Crossroads, he podido debuggear un pequeño y misero error que tenia, y ya esta publicado!
El nuevo look se debe a que tenia años la revista sin una retocada. La interfaz ya se veia vieja. En Nueva York discutimos la opcion de remodelar todo el sitio, y se acordo que la estructura y diseño actual estaban bien. Entonces propuese este “retoque” a la interfaz original, para verse mas actual (web 2.0?) y el resultado es bastante positivo.
Creo que es la pagina mas visitada y mas usada que he rediseñado y mantenido. Espero que a todos les guste.
Ya me merezco mi pagina en wikipedia por esta contribucion, o todavia no?
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