A Blog About Nothing

Posted on May 15, 2008 by mvrankin

Tonight was the 10th anniversary of the last episode of Seinfeld (and coincidentally, the last call for Mr. Francis Albert Sinatra). I always got a kick out seeing the Mac in the background of Seinfeld’s apartment, and how he silently “upgraded” each year to Apple’s latest and greatest. In the final season, Jerry even had [...]

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Cookbook 2.0 Is Served

Posted on April 15, 2008 by mvrankin

Time again to peek in on our cookbook project and see if it’s baked yet. You know they say you lose 10° every time you open the oven door. So does that mean if I opened it enough times, I could turn the oven into a freezer? Just wondering.
We left off last time with

decent-looking code, [...]

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Family Cookbook 2.0, part 3

Posted on April 6, 2008 by mvrankin

Has it been more than a week since we left off with the cookbook project? My how blog time flies. Let’s continue.
During the first two posts on this topic, we converted the old XPress file, and tagged the content in InDesign and exported it. Right now we have XML masquerading as HTML. Let’s open it [...]

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Family Cookbook 2.0

Posted on March 25, 2008 by mvrankin

Now that all our Easter eggs have been consumed, let’s continue on with that XML theme with a little project to illustrate the joy and pain of bringing old content into the brave new world of cross-media publishing. The goal is to take the files from old print project, languishing on some dusty CD in [...]

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