Just a brief post With the explosive growth of interest in “eBooks” and the use of SVG in EPUB3, I thought it would be worth experimenting to see how “easy” it was to produce SVG directly from typeset Arabic: using…
Microsoft is contributing resources towards porting Node to Windows. You can now download a single node.exe file and away you go! No more Cygwin!
Node.js and CouchDB are two very interesting technologies which are well worth exploring. Windows users can get prebuilt binaries/installers from the following locations. A self-contained Node.js installation for Windows can be downloaded from An installer for CouchDB on Windows…
I’ve recently been thinking about the future of the “authorship experience”: using pure browser-based editing environments to write scholarly/scientific papers. For highly mathematical work there may be some way to go before this is commonplace but this tool shows an…