Además del libro en papel, Amazon también vende mi mininovela Terra Incognita (1997) como libro electrónico para el Kindle:
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0041D8X5G
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I've just released version 5.1.4 of the Minimum Profit Text Editor. It features the following:
open_under_cursor.
mp.paste() function returns the clipboard content as a string if called without arguments.
Full source code and MS Windows binaries are available as always.
Finally I became the editor of Antichthon Universalis and made it available to the world. I wrote a foreword and included all data we have about it.
The book can be bought from my shop at Lulu.com. We (Pavel Kolsinski and me) preferred to publish it at a low cost to pay the expenses we had on the investigation of the text.
We still welcome any additional information you could have on the subject, please follow the Antichthon Universalis main page for details on how we can be contacted.
I've released a new version of the vintage game Space Plumber. In itself it just includes a new command line argument to execute in a 3x window size, but the main purpose of this release is that it includes last version of the QDGDF support library, which main new feature is that it includes a new windowed mode for Windows. A new Windows binary has been released as well.
Version 0.9.2 of QDGDF (the Quick and Dirty Game Development Framework) has been released. It features the following:
_qdgdfv_convert_ktl_to_proportional variable is set.
_qdgdfv_full_screen, settable before startup to suggest the desired behaviour (full screen or windowed). Also filled after startup.
_qdgdfv_extended_palette, filled with RGB values for each palette entry.
qdgdfv_path_find() and qdgdfa_path_find(), to return the full path to a file search in the configured paths.
qdgdfv_scale2x_p() and qdgdfv_scale3x_p(), implementing the scale2x and scale3x algorithms.
Someone called StormSpirit86, armed with infinite patience, has finished last level of Space Plumber and recorded it on video. This proves that, unlike what many people thought in 1998, this level can be solved.
Version 2.3.0 of Gruta (the Web Content Management System), codenamed "Lucca", has been released. The following changes were made:
cfg_disable_comments in the config template to 0) and can also be enabled or disabled on a per story basis. Comments are never automatically published: they require approval one by one, unless it's posted by an identified user that also has section editor capabilities.
strftime(), so its full set of percent-prefixed commands is available.
status has been added to set the HTTP status.
gruta_mksite helper scripts has been renamed to gruta-mksite and it's also installed in /usr/local/bin.
gruta command line tool.
img tag if the Image::Size Perl module is detected and installed.
query_timeout argument.
This is a new Artemus milestone release. The Artemus language has been completely rewritten to be a LISP-like, compiled machine. No backward compatibility is provided (other than including the old 4.x module in the distribution). The new 5.x language is faster, more flexible, less cumbersome (for example, there's no need for escaping inner blocks that should execute only conditionally) and include support for translateable strings.
All Ann Hell things on the net seems to be happening on Youtube these days.
A new version of the Minimum Profit text editor has been released, including the following features:
keep_eol, to keep the original end of line sequence each document had.
mp-5.exe.
Version 2.2.1 of the Gruta CMS, codenamed "Montecatini", has been released. The following changes were made:
set_date, to force a date to be assumed as today, to be used to take a look at how would a page be shown in the given date. Only usable by a logged-in admin user.
gruta_mksite, to help in the creation of a new site.
set_story_date, has been added to bin/gruta.
mod_rewrite keywords to be used if static_urls is set has been expanded.
RewriteRule ^/([0-9]+)\.html$ /?t=INDEX&offset=$1 [PT,L] RewriteRule ^/([0-9]+)-([0-9]+)\.html$ /?t=SEARCH_BY_DATE&from=$1&to=$2 [PT,L] RewriteRule ^/tag/(.+)\.html$ /?t=SEARCH_BY_TAG&tag=$1 [PT,L] RewriteRule ^/tag/$ /?t=TAGS [PT,L] RewriteRule ^/top/$ /?t=TOP_TEN [PT,L] RewriteRule ^/(.+)/$ /?t=TOPIC&topic=$1 [PT,L] RewriteRule ^/(.+)/index\.html$ /?t=TOPIC&topic=$1 [PT,L] RewriteRule ^/(.+)/([0-9]+)\.html$ /?t=TOPIC&topic=$1&offset=$2 [PT,L] RewriteRule ^/(.+)/(.+)\.html$ /?t=STORY&topic=$1&id=$2 [PT,L] RewriteRule ^/rss\.xml$ /?t=RSS [PT,L] RewriteRule ^/sitemap\.xml$ /?t=SITEMAP [PT,L] RewriteRule ^/style\.css$ /?t=CSS [PT,L]
I'm in the process of releasing version 5.1.3, that will include significant changes to the way character encodings are autodetected. I would like to know if there are any regressions for locales and encodings I could overlooked.
The downloadable tarball is the following:
http://triptico.com/download/mp-5.1.3-dev.tar.gz
I plan to release a Windows binary version really soon, probably this evening. This is specially important as Windows has its own set of potential problems regarding character encodings.
I've also written a document describing the new behaviour regarding encodings (the document is also included in the tarball):
Minimum Profit character encoding support
If you find any issue, please mail me to angel@triptico.com or subscribe to the Minimum Profit mailing list by writing to mp-subscribe@lists.triptico.com and say it there.
Update: Here it's the MS Windows binary:
Mi libro Terra Incognita (1997) ya se vende en Amazon.com.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002ADC3ZU/sr=8-11/qid=1243405490/ref=olp_produ...
A new version of the Minimum Profit text editor has been released. It includes the following features:
grep action can now be recursive.
section_list, that shows a list of sections in the current document to jump to. Sections are usually function definitions and special marks in programming languages.
seek_misspelled, to search the next misspelled word. It has been assigned to keycode f5.
ignore_last_misspell, to add the last misspelled word found by seek_misspelled to a whitelist so it won't be found again.
seek_repeated_word, to search for words starting or ending with the same number of letters up to a maximum distance. It's controlled by the new configuration directives mp.config.rw_num_chars and mp.config.rw_max_dist. It has been assigned to keycode f6 (this keycode was previously assigned to join_paragraph, which has no keybinding now).
open_templates_file has been fixed.
-d, to change the working directory.
dump() function now dumps its argument as MPSL code.
Igual que hice en enero y febrero con Las Tijeras del Viajero (1996), hoy queda inaugurada la semana monstruosa: desde hoy hasta el sábado publicaré diariamente un minirelato del libro Las Tijeras del Viajero. Monstruos (1997).
Basta con suscribirse al siguiente RSS:
http://triptico.com/?t=RSS;tag=las%20tijeras%20del%20viajero.%20monstruos
Version 2.2.0 of the Gruta CMS, codenamed "Osmannoro", has been released. This release needs Artemus version 4.1.2. The following changes were made:
stories_by_date has changed the order of their output values; now they are topic_id, id and date.
tag, to get feeds on stories by tag.
sources argument is still supported (only the first one is used, though), but the scalar source is preferred now.
.META extension has been changed to .M, and .TAGS to .T. Also, new files appear in the stories directory with the .A and .B extensions, holding the rendered abstract and story body, respectively. The transition is made automatically on the first run, no manual operation is needed.
hard_top_ten_limit to Gruta::Source::FS, to set the maximum number of stories to be tested when generating the top read stories index (previously hardcoded to 100).
min_size_for_gzip to Gruta::CGI, to set the minimum size for the output body to be Gzip compressed (previously hardcoded to 10000).
CSS, RSS and SITEMAP pages. The following mod_rewrite rule must be added to the ones suggested in the previous version:
RewriteRule ^/style\.css$ /?t=CSS [PT]
Version 4.1.2 of the Artemus template toolkit has been released. The following changes were made:
sort.
reverse.
loader_func argument to new().
La segunda edición en papel de mi libro Terra Incognita (1997) está lista para comprarla en la tienda Lulu.com.
El texto incluye algunas correcciones de fallos tipográficos y estilo. Pero lo más interesante es la nueva presentación y diseño hecho por Marisa Ortega, gran profesional que además es mi hermana.
Una vez más, se demuestra que el aspecto es fundamental y lo que antes parecía un panfleto sin el menor interés ahora parece un libro de verdad.
Version 2.0.15 of the Grutatxt text conversion package has been released. The following changes were made:
url-label-max to the HTML driver to set a maximum size for URLs.
pod2grutatxt, to convert Perl documentation in POD format to Grutatxt.
pre mode is really verbatim, so bold / italic markup is not processed.
Una amistosa introdución a la codificación de vídeo, parte 3: sonido con pérdida, por Mark Pilgrim.
LWN: Btrfs apunta a su inclusión, por Jonathan Corbet.
Desde hoy hasta mediados de febrero de 2009, y sin ninguna razón en especial, he decidido publicar cada día uno de los relatos o poemas de mi libro Las Tijeras del Viajero (1996).
La forma más cómoda de leerlos es mediante un lector RSS. Están por todas partes: Mozilla Firefox, Google Reader ó KDE Akregator. Tan sólo hay que usar el siguiente URL:
http://triptico.com/?t=RSS;tag=las%20tijeras%20del%20viajero
Una amistosa introdución a la codificación de vídeo, parte 1: contenedores, por Mark Pilgrim.
Una amistosa introdución a la codificación de vídeo, parte 2: vídeo con pérdida, por Mark Pilgrim.
LWN: Btrfs, ¿incorporarlo al núcleo principal?, por Jake Edge.
He escrito el siguiente artículo: El algoritmo Diffie-Hellman, una breve descripción del mecanismo en el que se basa el cifrado de clave pública.
It seems that Minimum Profit has been orphaned in Debian due to its maintainer (Roberto Suarez Soto) being missing in action:
MP's package (called mped there) was certainly very abandoned and outdated.
So, if you are a Debian developer and have any interest in having the best text editor in the universe working in the best Linux distribution of the world, please adopt it.
El otro día un cirujano pediátrico, en un examen de rutina, observó algo extraño en el cerebro de un recién nacido. Echó mano de bisturí y resultó ser un pie:
http://www.thedenverchannel.com/health/18297954/detail.html
Escarbando más, no sólo encontró el pie, sino lo que parecían ser los intestinos, una mano, un muslo y otro pie de alguien más. Parece ser que esto es otro caso de siameses parásitos o de «fetus in fetu».
En estos momentos de congoja uno suele ampararse en la obviedad, como en el comentario «this is completely abnormal» del doctor, o en el también obvio pero no por ello menos cierto «This is our baby» de la madre.
No obstante, hay cosas que pueden parecer obvias, pero no lo deben ser tanto, como es la reacción de esta mastuerza de Lake Forest (EEUU) que, habiendo quedado atrapada con su coche en un paso a nivel sin barreras del tren y viendo a éste acercarse, no se bajó del mismo, sino que llamó al teléfono de emergencias pidiendo auxilio, consuelo o ambas cosas.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28278606
El final es presumible; el tren la pilló y lamentablemente ha muerto a la edad de 68 años. La noticia no explica cómo esa mujer ha podido sobrevivir tanto tiempo.
Y, de nuevo, otra noticia nos hace ver que no todo debe ser tan obvio como parece: Brian May, guitarrista de Queen, afirma que él «No sabía de Freddie Mercury era gay»:
http://www.europapress.es/gente/noticia-brian-may-guitarrista-queen-no-sabia-fre...
Al menos, sí reconoce que había «algo sospechoso».
Y la última noticia de esta entrega: unos arqueólogos han encontrado, en una tumba china que fue sellada hace 400 años, un reloj suizo de hace 100. Atención a la foto: no se menciona el hecho de que el reloj de pulsera es minúsculo:
http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/76140/Tomb-raiders-baffled-by-Swiss-watch-fo...
De nuevo refugiándose en lo obvio, uno de ellos nos deja la siguiente perla:
"Watches weren't around in the Ming dynasty and Switzerland as a country didn't even exist then"
Es un mundo extraño.
Estas noticias han sido patrocinadas por el verdadero significado de la letra "O" en Roger O. Thornill.
Version 2.1.0 of the Gruta CMS, codenamed "Calenzano", has been released. Gruta Release Notes.
The Space Plumber win32 install package was somehow corrupted and has been rebuilt again.