Archive for the ‘Projects’ Category
Tuesday, April 29th, 2008 88 Views
I did some minor interface updates:
1. A new section was added to the site listing titles that are pending in queue to be processed.
2. Pages for titles already processed were enhanced with cover images and metadata from the original archives, as well as enhanced listing of reprints and links to ...
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Sunday, March 30th, 2008 235 Views
Over the weekend I coded up a new BETA search function for PublicDomainReprints.org which uses Google's AJAX Search API. This new search (which can be found here), lets people search for more public domain books and request reprints without leaving the site. The original search is still available on the ...
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Monday, March 3rd, 2008 449 Views
Dan Cohen recently interviewed me for his podcast at DigitalCampus.tv. You can listed to it here, my interview starts at about 20 minutes in. It is focused mainly on PublicDomainReprints.org and surrounding issues.
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Thursday, February 21st, 2008 407 Views
Some regular updates:
1. Amazon EC2 image upgraded to Fedore Core 8.
2. The processed book lists and the 20 recent book RSS feed now point to a book details page.
3. Support for additional link formats has been added.
4. Store links have been removed since they were confusing people.
5. We are still ...
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Tuesday, February 19th, 2008 477 Views
One of the long overdue tasks that I managed to get done today is to upgrade the Amazon EC2 image used for PublicDomainReprints.org to Fedora Core 8. There were three small issues that I ran into and I am posting my solutions to them in hopes that they will help ...
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Wednesday, February 13th, 2008 322 Views
Here are some bug fixes that were implemented on PublicDomainReprints.org:
Resizing for Internet Archive books did not fully work for books that were too large. This has been fixed.
Support for illustrations in Google Books has been fixed.
Support for more Google Books URLs has been added.
Rudimentary support for extra margins has been ...
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Monday, January 14th, 2008 474 Views
The last week has been a whirlwind in terms of traffic - over 7,000 hits resulting from various blog posts from around the web as well as various bookmarking services. I want to thank all of people who helped publicize this little project and want to mention below some of the most significant posts:
Open Access News post by Peter Suber (Nov 22nd, 2007)
Teleread post by David Rothman ...
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Monday, December 31st, 2007 837 Views
My little experiment for reprinting public domain books has been running for a little over a month. About 75 books have been setup and printed so far. Today I have added support for public domain books from Google Book Search and moved the service to its own domain. It will ...
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Monday, November 19th, 2007 1,917 Views
A small project that I have been working on for a while is now public. It is intended to reprint public domain books from the Internet Archive via on demand printing technology. Here is how it works:
1. You request any public domain book from the Internet Archive.
2. The book is processed and submitted to Lulu, a no upfront fee print on demand company.
3. You can order the printed book from Lulu at cost (almost, a small under $1 fee
is surcharged to cover cost of conversion servers rented from Amazon EC2).
The project is called "Public Domain Books Reprints Service" and can ...
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Friday, October 26th, 2007 784 Views
My company just redid our site - it is very minimalistic. Check it out at www.solidmatrix.com. We are also launching our product into alpha - Emerald CRM at www.emeraldcrm.com. It is a web based software system for managing small business, especially service businesses. It covers scheduling, billing and customer management. ...
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Monday, July 30th, 2007 1,091 Views
About two years ago I coded a small experimental search engine for books which used Ajax and Amazon web services. Recently, I went back to the same concept and put up a new experiment - a meta search engine for book information that aggregates book data from about 60 different ...
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Tuesday, July 10th, 2007 950 Views
For a while I have been working on a hobby project trying to make a meta-search engine that you can use to search multiple search engines by tag. The catch? No server side components. This search engine works client side only from the user's browser by using RSS feeds from ...
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Friday, November 17th, 2006 809 Views
After reading this gushing Techcrunch post on how good Wink's new people search feature is (it searchs all of three networks!), I decided to see if I can do the same via Google's new Custom Search Engine service. The result which can be tried below, is a new project: www.socialpeople.net ...
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Thursday, August 3rd, 2006 549 Views
Following a comment on this post I hacked up an unofficial RSS feed for Kashrus Alerts. This is done via scraping this web page at Kashrut.com. The feed is here:
http://feeds.feedburner.com/KashrutDotComKosherAlerts
It contains alerts from all major agencies around the world.
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Tuesday, April 18th, 2006 853 Views
(This is a followup on an earlier post about availability of GPS info on Sprint PCS's CDMA network)
Recently I had a short email exchange with someone at Sprint about obtaining access to their LBS information for the use in my company's products. My company targets a small vertical niche market ...
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Thursday, March 2nd, 2006 484 Views
A recent problem that I have been having is the need to constantly monitor security advisories for the software I use on this site, my personal computers and the servers at work. So far I have been doing that by reading CERT's twice-a-month Security Bulletins and SANS's twice-a-week RISK newsletters. ...
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Tuesday, February 14th, 2006 663 Views
I took a little time today to add support for the following to the SingleSub project:
FeedBlitz
Google Reader
NewsIsFree
Squeet
(For those wondering, SingleSub is my little project that allows to use a single RSS subscribe button to subscribe to multiple readers)
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