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At my local Barnes and Noble, there is a huge wall of Java books just waiting to tip over and crush me one day. And one day it will. At the rate things are going, one day that bookcase will be tall enough to crush us all. It might even loop the world several times, crushing previous editions of the same Java books over and over again.And This Paragraph Too
This is just a small Ruby book. It won’t crush you. It’s light as a feather (because I haven’t finished it yet—hehe). And there’s a reason this book will stay light: because Ruby is simple to learn.But Don't Read This One!
Why’s (Poignant) Guide to Ruby is released under the Attribution-ShareAlike License. So, yes, please distribute it and print it and read it leisurely in your housecoat. In fact, there will be a contest at the end of the book for Best Housecoat. It’s a coveted award and you should feel honored to even read about it! (Especially if you are reading about it in your soon-to-be-prize-winning housecoat.)
I really like the straight-forward nature of ruby, and contributions like Why'sadd to this enjoyment.
Heard a talk by Marc Levoy et al. from Stanford today, presenting their CityBlock project.
Some other sites which present panoramic city views: Cambridge Live; and Seamless City, in which the photographs are manually stitched together.
Phillip Torrone posted about Jeffrey Early's gpsphotolinker, which uses a GPX file to stitch lat/lon information into your photograph's EXIF data.
This is exactly what I wanted. Well, ideally I'd have the GPS embedded in the camera. Soon.