Month: December 2008

Multiple Input with Single Input Apps

Posted on December 24, 2008

The few eBook formating tools I’ve posted all share one major flaw. They can only handle a single file as input. This is a problem when you want to run it on all or a number of different eBooks. If you are able to use Bash there is a simple... Continue reading

Building the eBook Tools

Posted on December 23, 2008

It’s come to my attention that while I’ve posted a few eBook formating tools I wrote and use I never posted how to build them. Since I’m using Qt the easiest way to build them is to use qmake and make. The build process is simple. Create a pro file... Continue reading

eBook Adding Empty Lines At End of File

Posted on December 22, 2008

Continuing my work to clean up my eBooks I’ve written another little tool to help. I like for my eBooks to have two blank lines at the end of the file. The only major caveat of this one is it assumes Unix end of lines. Meaning a single n character.... Continue reading

eBook Paragraph Formating

Posted on December 21, 2008

Today I wrote two simple programs to help me clean up my ebooks. I prefer to keep my ebook collection as plain text files with paragraphs separated by a blank line. The first program reflows the paragraphs to put each on a single line. The second removes extraneous whitespace from... Continue reading

json and blogger

Posted on December 14, 2008

Today I decided to learn about json. To help me with this I coded a little python script I call blogger-updates.py. It takes the name of a blogger blog and optionally a number designating the number of entries to reterieve. I used Google’s blogger api to get the data.... Continue reading

Kittens!

Posted on December 13, 2008

Today Tati and I decided to adopt two cute little kittens. Wally is an orange tabby and he is 2 months old. Cricket is a Persian mix and she is 3 months old. Both love each other and play with one another whenever they aren’t sleeping. It’s nice having them... Continue reading