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30 terabytes of old English public domain literature to go online

Lars K Jensen — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 11:24:56 +0000

BBC News reports that The British Library in cooperation with Microsoft, is preparing some 100.000 old books to go online.

The books are 19th century books which belong in the public domain — to avoid copyright infringements.

Google is also working in the digitizing of books department, but with other libraries: Stanford, Harvard, and Michigan university libraries, the New York public library and the Bodleian library in Oxford.

Read the BBC News article for more information.

A new book for the shelf

Lars K Jensen — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 09:31:05 +0000

I just ordered this book on Ubuntu – let's just hope it delivers as much as it promises :-)

Book: "WordPress complete"

Lars K Jensen — Fri, 29 Dec 2006 15:27:54 +0000

The book WordPress Complete is now out. You can read more about it at Newsforge:

This book is a beginner's guide to WordPress, for people who are new to blogging and want to create their own blogs in a simple and straightforward manner. It does not require any detailed knowledge of programming or web development, and any IT-confident user will be able to use the book to produce an impressive blog.

You can also buy the book at Amazon.co.uk or Amazon.com.

Meanwhile, I'm still waiting for Pro Wordpress Development (Pro) to be released. Currently set for July 3rd.

WordPress Pro Development

Lars K Jensen — Wed, 24 May 2006 21:26:10 +0000

I just pre-ordered this book, called "WordPress Pro Development".

I haven't really been able to find any other information about the book, except »Deals with computers/software«, as Amazon writes.

But I hope it contains a lot of tips, tricks and code examples of how to customize or build upon the WordPress platform. Let's face it, PHP rocks! ;-)