Plucker Projects

I’ve been working hard on some other projects (news announcement shortly), but I just wanted to write a quick note to say that the Plucker Wikipedia project is most-definitely NOT dead. I’ve scripted up the entire backend and have a repeatable way to produce the product.

The next steps are to output the right format for each target device. In the first pass, I’ll be supporting the following formats:
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This is a bit of an odd creation, but I thought a lot of people would find this useful and fun.

I found a blog entry Little Red Rails about “Online Dating”, while looking for some other material. I browsed the content, and found that it was very thorough, and very well-researched. I decided to take the time to convert it into Plucker format.

A few years back, I was at the bar with some friends from work. This was at a time well into my online dating experience. By this point, I was sold on internet dating and thanks to growing dating experience, I was becoming very comfortable meeting new people. On this evening, I had a very brief conversation with the girl sitting next to me and asked her out as I was leaving. Based on how breifly we had spoken, I suspected I was committing social suicide. However, since I had several dates planned for later that week, I wasn’t too concerned. To my surprise, she agreed and we went out a few days later…it was a total disaster. I found I had nothing in common with the “bar girl”. The conversations were uncomfortable and she had an unhealthy obsession with all things death.

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This one is a bit short, but packed with useful information on how to use git to maintain a local tree that matches exactly what Linus and the other core Linux kernel developers are working on.

What is git?

Git is popular version control system designed to handle very large projects with speed and efficiency;
it is used mainly for various open source projects, most notably the Linux kernel.

Git falls in the category of distributed source code management tools, similar to e.g. GNU Arch or Monotone (or BitKeeper in the proprietary world). Every Git working directory is a full-fledged repository with full revision tracking capabilities, not dependent on network access or a central server.
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Another hand-retouched conversion from the original First Edition to Plucker format.. This was not simply a conversion of the raw HTML, this was updated in hundreds of places by hand to optimize it for use in Plucker’s viewer.

This book is a tutorial and reference for the Ruby programming language. Use Ruby, and you’ll write better code, be more productive, and enjoy programming more.
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Below you will find the PostgreSQL documentation in Plucker format (current as of Thursday August 17^th 10:20:14 EDT 2006)

The fonts used in the screenshots below are part of the “Plucker Free Font Collection” and were created with the Palm Font Converter written by Alexander R. Pruss. You can read more about how to convert fonts for use with Plucker in the news section.
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Below you will find the MySQL Reference Manuals in Plucker format (current as of Thursday August 17^th 10:20:14 EDT 2006).

The fonts used in the screenshots below are part of the “Plucker Free Font Collection” and were created with the Palm Font Converter written by Alexander R. Pruss. You can read more about how to convert fonts for use with Plucker in the news section.
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Below are some quick screenshots of the Gentoo News RSS feed and the Gentoo Handbook (single-page version) converted for use in Plucker. If you’d like to see other examples or screenshots of this quality, let me know.

The RSS feed was converted with a new tool I’ve written (to be launched soon as an online service) called the “Plucker Syndication Server“. It can take any rss, rdf, xml or atom feed and convert it to the beautiful rendition you see below.
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Below are some screenshots of the Cygwin FAQ and the Cygwin/X FAQ. These have been converted to Plucker format.
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The various versions of the PHP documentation can be found here, in 21 languages.

These were created with the Palm Font Converter written by Alexander R. Pruss. You can read more about how to convert fonts for use with Plucker in the Plucker news section.
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Below are some screenshots of Anti-aliased fonts I’ve created for use in Plucker. If you’d like to see other examples, let me know.
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