Friar eBook Framework 1.0 20 JavaScript Frameworks Worth Checking Out The number of web applications being created and used has grown rapidly since the new millenium. And importantly, so has the sheer complexity of them -- specially on the front end. No more static pages, no sir! You have a ton of sections each interacting with each other and the server and yes, it's as complicated as it sounds and just as hard to pull off. Today, I'd like to talk about a few choice JavaScript frameworks that aim to simplify front-end application development. If you think jQuery is the answer, you lose a cookie and get an F grade! Creating responsive, fluid, and maintainable interfaces for web apps isn't as easy as one would imagine -- there is data to be sent back to the server and the results parsed, data stores to be updated, views to be re-rendered and so much else that needs to be done in the background. Sure, a few of these may be a little old but their code bases have lots of lessons to teach. Related links: Introduction to Sammy.js Github Repo Google Code
Issuu - You Publish Leanpub Onswipe From Book Oven to PressBooks, Hugh McGuire Shares His Startup Story Hugh McGuire is a well known Montreal entrepreneur. In fact, he’s known all over the world. Hugh is the founder of LibriVox, the largest catalog of audio books from the public domain. It’s a great service and continues to grow. A few years ago, Hugh decided to take a crack at building a “for-profit” company called Book Oven. The goal was to build a platform for book publishing. Like with most startups, things at Book Oven didn’t go as planned. Hugh’s story is a testament to perseverance, learning, pivoting and just how hard it is to build a successful startup. NextMontreal: What is PressBooks? Hugh: PressBooks is a simple book production tool. PressBooks is a reinvention and focusing of some of the ideas that went into BookOven.com, which we started building in late 2008 (!). NextMontreal: Are you the only founder? Hugh: Yes. NextMontreal: How did you get from Book Oven to PressBooks? bookoven.com was getting no traction, and we were burning too much money. Building from Scratch.
Oomph - Tools - OomphBox Oomph HQ Oomph is a digital publishing platform that is easy use whilst giving you the flexibility to control your design, use your existing workflows and customise features — all without the need to know any coding. Sign up to get FREE access to the Oomph tools including Oomph Editor and the Getting Started Bundle. How does it work? Want to learn more? SUPPORTsupport@oomphHQ.com Copyright © 2014 Oomph Pty Ltd loading Threepress Consulting Inc. Appliness: digital magazine Hi guys! I’ve been working on a new project for several weeks. As my team is now extending its audience and its skills, we were looking for innovative ways to reach web application developers. Website and links Appliness is now alive and has its own dedicated website: If you have an iPad, you can download the magazine on the app store. If you have an Android tablet, Appliness is available as a standalone application on Google Play. I’m currently working with Amazon to put it on the Amazon Appstore. Digital Publishing Suite To create this magazine, I used Adobe Digital Publishing Suite (DPS). Add interactive content with DPS The first panel with DPS installed is called “Overlay creator”. Organize your folio The other panel that comes with DPS in InDesign is the “Folio Builder”. Create a native viewer Contribute I’ve also launched a dedicated website:
Infographic: The Affordable Future of College Textbooks - Nicholas Jackson - Technology The average college student spends about $900 every year just on textbooks. That, in addition to rising tuition costs, boarding costs and activity fees, is making college more expensive than it's ever been. Publishing pioneers and textbook innovators are pushing open textbooks, or works that students can read digitally, print out on their own or buy in a more traditional format. With reduced distribution costs, open source textbooks should save students some money while also allowing them to digest new information in their chosen format. OnlineSchools.org put together an infographic that covers the movement to get more open textbooks on the market. Infographics are always a bit of a hodgepodge of statistics culled from a variety of sources. It is estimated that the average college student spends $900 every year on new textbooks. Check out more Infographics on the Technology Channel.
Hyphenation in NOOK Color What I really wanted to be writing about today was my new miniguide about, uh, well I'll tell you soon, which is all ready to go, but unfortunately not yet available on my shopping cart site. As soon as it is, I'll announce it here. (It's pretty cool :) Meanwhile, I've been working a lot with the NOOK Color and noticed that it was mangling my headlines, putting hyphens in even though I don't want them, and even cutting off the end of words sometimes. This despite using the standard CSS hyphen controls that I explained in this article here in February. The standard CSS for controlling hyphens is not currently supported by NOOK Color, but thankfully, there was a guy from B&N on Mobile Read who offered a solution. adobe-text-layout: optimizeSpeed; in order to force NOOK Color to use an older RMSDK which has a text engine which doesn't do hyphenation. I added it to the rules for the headers in my book and it worked like a charm: