Writing the summary of Chapter 2 seemed to work as a warmup for me the other day, so I thought I would write about Chapter 3 as a warm up for working some more on Chapter 7. I also need to look at reviewer comments for Chapters 2, 3, and 4 sometime today, so it…
Month: August 2005
Why Debian?
Why do I use Debian? Well, one of the reasons is the bug reporting. I think I just found two bugs in ImageMagick, one a simple documentation bug, and the other a functionality bug. With Debian, I can just run the reportbug command from the command line with the name of the package, and walk…
ImageMagick book – Chapter 2: Basic Image Manipulation
I’m meant to be writing the rest of chapter seven tonight, but I thought I would warm up by continuing with my promised series of posts about the content of the book. The next chapter in the list is chapter two, which covers simple image manipulations. The idea was to get the stuff which everyone…
Nice introduction to Fourier Transforms
From Wikipedia. [icbm: dcs]
Trying out the Apress e-book system
Full disclosure: I am currently writing a book for Apress. As an Apress author Apress asked me to check out the Apress e-book online catalog thingie. They threw in a free e-book as an incentive, so I thought I should give it a try. I’ve done a fair few book reviews for AUUG / Woodslane…
Some details about the publication process
Pascal asked in the comments to a previous post about the book about how I was going about writing the book and how the publication process works. It’s a good question, and something I meant to cover here anyway, so now seems like a good time. I’ll start from the beginning with a brief summary…
And now the book is on Amazon.com
The ImageMagick Book is now on Amazon US too. Hurrah!
This morning I was pondering the origins of the goose step march
And then Slate clarified the history of this ridiculous piece of militaria. [icbm: dcs]