Hello, @Matt_2.1. Welcome to the revolution. How is life treating you?

@Donald.McLean good but very busy trying to get everything done for christmas

o/

Greetings everyone.

@NathanOsman Good morning.

@Matt_2.1 Yeah, I know all about that.

hi @NathanOsman and @Donald.McLean

I'd say the site's off to a good start.

I would like more code and less calibre ;)

@Matt_2.1 I kind of figured Calibre would show up in a lot of answers.

I expected the same but Im partial on how to go about telling people Calibre is not meant for production.

We'll call it The One Tool to Rule Them All™.

@Matt_2.1 Perhaps a Meta post would be a good idea.

Ive thought about that but still working on the proper way to say it.

I understand people use what they have seen but I would feel better helping with hard code examples instead of introducing a gui element that can cause issues.

Ideally, everyone would use LaTeX :P

(Yes, I'm just kidding.)

ha ha

hey I love indesign but then thats the designer side in me

I've created ePubs from scratch, by hand, using just the standard as a guide. But then I'm a professional software developer.

@Donald.McLean whats your view on developing for the device?

On developing what for which device?

do you feel an ebook should be designed and developed for certain devices instead of the mentality by some of one file to rule them all?

@Matt_2.1 As a man who uses four wildly different reading platforms, I have to say "Just give me the ePub and nobody gets hurt."

lol

so what language you specialize in?

Scala

never heard of it

Although I guess that technically, since it's a web app, it's part Scala, part HTML, part CSS, part JavaScript and part XML.

interesting

Scala is a modern hybrid functional/object language, based on Java and runs in the Java Virtual Machine, plus is compatible with existing Java libraries.

It has all of Java's strengths and few of its weaknesses. All of the functional stuff plus a multi-threading construct called "actors" make it great for building a web app.

well guys have a good night

Not perfect though. Compiler is slow compared to other languages, mostly because the type system is so sophisticated (the nice way of saying complicated).

Take care, @Matt_2.1.

@Donald.McLean Didn't they just drop that from Debian?

@NathanOsman I have no idea. I do my development on a Mac and our servers are all Dell/RHEL.

I just mentioned that because I was reading this morning that Debian had dropped Scala from their testing release.

Somebody was going around trying to drum up support for getting it included again.

I'm not even sure how you would "drop" something that can be easily installed by end users. Especially since it's just a bunch of Java libraries.

They had it packaged in their archives.

They dropped support for the package they provide.

Sorry for the confusion.

No problem. It just sounds like much ado about nothing to me. Like I said, easily installed by end users.

Though I have to say, considering how bloated OS's are these days, perhaps dropping a few more things wouldn't be bad.

And we're back. And it's Friday.

@Donald.McLean Im happy its Friday! so much to do today before next week

can we migrate some questions in regards to ebooks here?

@Matt_2.1 The only time questions get migrated is when they are off-topic on the original site. And then they only get migrated to sites that have reached public beta.

and we are still in private beta for a week or so right?

With next week being a holiday to many, I would expect the private beta to go into the week of the new year.

@JamesJenkins good point

Hi everyone!

@bmike Good morning and Welcome to the Revolution.

Hee hee

I see no television, but I'm ok with a little revolution....

Good morning everyone. (It's mid-afternoon in some places and even later elsewhere, so replace the "morning" in my greeting with the appropriate time of day.)

@NathanOsman I like to think that it is always morning. But then, I'm a "The glass is 52% full" kind of guy.

Not much traffic here yet, which is understandable

I posted a question and then thought I had posted on Ebooks meta, I think it looks a bit too much like Eboos beta for my eyesight ;-)

Are there review queues on beta sites? I want to vote "don't close" on a specific question but don't know how to do that outside review queue

@DVK if you have enough rep you should get review next to your reputation block in the header (350 reo needed for late answers instead of 2000 on SO)

I mean a a review link

@Anthon - Ah. Forgot that review have rep limits. Thx

Fortunately they are lowered on new sites, at least until there are enough active users with somewhat higher rep.

ebooks.stackexchange.com/review

@NathanOsman would you consider a miinimal python program for generating photo EPUBs a good answer to your question (ebooks.stackexchange.com/questions/173/…)?

Sure!

I will try to strip the thing I have down. IIRC most work was in scaling the images to my devices resolution without distortion, the rest is relatively templatized file generation. I have to see if it is a reasonable amount of code lines. I not I will put it up on PyPI as package and provide a link.

But not today, it past 11PM here, need to get some sleep, got up at 4:30 this morning.