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I use Calibre for managing eBooks that I have got from outside the Amazon Kindle store, and for backing up the books I have bought from Amazon. It has always irritated me that it does not autoupdate, and the update process involves downloading a DMG and copying from there. I finally got annoyed enough with it to do something.

From Embedded Font Support and ICEPdf ICEpdf Open Source ICEpdf Open Source uses java.awt.Font when reading system font files for substitution. ICEpdf Open Source, by default, disables using ...

Contractual Started playing with this today, Contractual brings the concept of Interfaces and Abstract classes to Ruby. I’d started trying to implement this based on an article by Mark Bates , be...

Along with updating to use the latest version of the Twitter Ruby Gem, which now requires authentication, I’ve merged the “Twitter Favourites to The Hit List” and “Twitter Favourites to Reminders” ...