Posted by Tom | March 21, 2007
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After a small typo in the Hobo manual was reported in the forum (thanks!), I decided I’d like to automate the process of updating the manual.
I had two awkward bits that I was doing manually - conversion from Markdown to HTML, and conversion from Markdown to PDF.
Posted by Tom | March 18, 2007
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Very interesting point over on S/N:
Is Hobo guilty of putting up another layer? Of blurring your vision? The answer can’t be a straightforward “yes”, because that road would lead back to hacking assembly-code by hand.
Many photographers like to develop their film by hand too. If Hillman Curtis did that with his movie, for every frame, he’d definitely get a richer result. He’d also never finish.
I think it comes down to a simple trade-off — every time you flick an “auto” switch off, development time goes up, but quality goes up too - people always do things better than machines. Which switches you flick is a judgement call that has to be made for each switch and for each project.
The interesting thing about Hobo is that it lets you, if you so choose, start with all the switches on. You can then switch them off one by one, gradually replacing the automatic with the hand-crafted.
Posted by Tom | March 16, 2007
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I had to create a new category for this post — ‘Off Topic’. Hope you don’t mind but I just had to share this with anyone that’s listening. Everyone in the Western world needs to watch this video. Twice. No, Really.
Once upon a time, a book of “One-Minute Bedtime Stories” provided the wake-up call for Carl Honore, who considered time efficiency to be more important than reading to his son. He realized that he was speeding his way through life to the detriment of his health, productivity and relationships. As in his book, “In Praise of Slowness”, Honore shares examples of how we can make more of life by doing less and getting in touch with our “inner tortoise.” (Recorded July 2005 in Oxford, UK. Duration: 20:00)
(I just got a link from a friend recommending the TED Talks and this was the first one I watched — looks like a gold mine!)
Posted by Tom | March 16, 2007
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I guess that’s what happens when you do a release at 2am. The hobo command was failing, or more specifically, the hobo_user_model generator which is used by the hobo command.
Fixed in Hobo 0.5.1 (download gem)
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