We are very excited to announce the early release of "bookshop."
Summary:
bookShop is an open-source Ruby-based framework for DocBook toolchain happiness and sustainable productivity. The framework is optimized to help developers quickly ramp-up, allowing them to more rapidly jump in and develop their DocBook-to-Output flows, by favoring convention over configuration, setting them up with best practices from the get-go.
The Goal:
To go from zero to exporting(pdfs, epub or whatever) from your DocBook source files in under 10 minutes.
Here's the rubygems page: https://rubygems.org/gems/bookshop
And the source code: https://github.com/blueheadpublishing/bookshop
bookshop currently works on Mac OS X, but can also be used on any *nix OS. Windows support is coming in the next couple of weeks.
To install bookshop:
$> sudo gem install bookshop
To create a new bookshop application:
$> bookshop new new_app_name
You can edit your book in the new "book/" subfolder, starting with the book.xml file
To build a pdf format from your DocBook source:
(from within the root of your new_app folder)
$> bookshop build pdf
Your new pdf book will be located in the "build/pdf" subfolder
News and articles from BlueHead Publishing
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Monday, March 28, 2011
Tuesday, January 11, 2011
BlueHead Signs Author, Shelley Hayes.
BlueHead Publishing is proud to announce the signing of author Shelley Hayes, and her book
YOU THROW LIKE A GIRL.
As a professional leadership & life coach, author Shelley Hayes has witnessed powerful transformations in individuals taught to change their thinking and reframe past messages of limitations. Such lessons are especially effective when experienced at a young age.
A mother of two active boys, Shelley recognizes first-hand the limiting and often damaging effects of coaches/instructors who flippantly use derogatory verbiage to motivate. Hayes’ book, YOU THROW LIKE A GIRL is a middle-grade, picture-book narrative written with the intent of shedding light on the power of words and perception. Infused with thought-provoking dialog and equally compelling illustrations, YOU THROW LIKE A GIRL demonstrates the positive effects of embracing who you are.
Hayes’ book, and her own compassionate work, inspires children, as well as caring adults who also believe in equality and in positively motivating young people. In a fun story about neighborhood friends, Hayes offers a sweet story that invites the reader to embrace gender and self-expression with pride and a true sense of equality.
Shelley Hayes holds a Masters degree in Business Administration and Management as well as a Bachelors degree in Sociology with a minor in Psychology. She is a Certified Professional Coach and received certification from the International Coach Academy.
YOU THROW LIKE A GIRL will be released mid-June 2011 due to BlueHead Publishing’s unique 6-month book-to-market trajectory.
For more information, go to: http://youthrowlikeagirlbook.com
YOU THROW LIKE A GIRL.
As a professional leadership & life coach, author Shelley Hayes has witnessed powerful transformations in individuals taught to change their thinking and reframe past messages of limitations. Such lessons are especially effective when experienced at a young age.
A mother of two active boys, Shelley recognizes first-hand the limiting and often damaging effects of coaches/instructors who flippantly use derogatory verbiage to motivate. Hayes’ book, YOU THROW LIKE A GIRL is a middle-grade, picture-book narrative written with the intent of shedding light on the power of words and perception. Infused with thought-provoking dialog and equally compelling illustrations, YOU THROW LIKE A GIRL demonstrates the positive effects of embracing who you are.
Hayes’ book, and her own compassionate work, inspires children, as well as caring adults who also believe in equality and in positively motivating young people. In a fun story about neighborhood friends, Hayes offers a sweet story that invites the reader to embrace gender and self-expression with pride and a true sense of equality.
Shelley Hayes holds a Masters degree in Business Administration and Management as well as a Bachelors degree in Sociology with a minor in Psychology. She is a Certified Professional Coach and received certification from the International Coach Academy.
YOU THROW LIKE A GIRL will be released mid-June 2011 due to BlueHead Publishing’s unique 6-month book-to-market trajectory.
For more information, go to: http://youthrowlikeagirlbook.com
Friday, October 29, 2010
New Developer Hub & Upgrades
We are excited to announce the New Developer Hub for those who are interested in seeing how we developed and are developing the BlueHead site, Author's Dashboard, and Fan Club Site. We use Github (of course) to manage it all and have chosen to make the repository a public repository so anyone can participate as a developer and contribute (we will credit them in the "CONTRIBUTORS" file of the source code).
New Dev Updates:
New Dev Updates:
- Upgraded system to Rails 3.0.1
- Moved hosting to Heroku
- Created sandbox branch for new feature adds
Friday, October 1, 2010
BlueHead switches to Highrise
After spending a little time working in Highrise, a Customer Relationship Management tool by 37Signals, it was clear that their "Goodbye to bloat" tagline was inherently obvious.
Our initial concerns in dropping SugarCRM (our current CRM tool):
So it came down to one word: simplicity. As an independent, constantly-morphing publishing house living in a wonderfully evolving market, keeping it simple matters and we avoid the word "procedure" like the plague. If you need to wrap a procedure around complicated administrivia, it is just too complicated. At least, we try to keep that in mind.
AND, for all you tech-head types out there, they are a Ruby/onRails shop, so you know they are relevant!
Our initial concerns in dropping SugarCRM (our current CRM tool):
- Would we miss all of the cool feature sets: detailed tracking for the entire customer pipeline from target to contact/deal, and crazy detailed reporting?
- Frankly, we never used any of the functionality. In point of fact we found ourselves constantly going back and forth about how to enter a contact... "Are they a target...or a lead...oh wait!...do we enter them here...or here...what's our procedure again?...oh crap! where did I put that note about my phone call yesterday?...wait, what's the contact's name again?"
- Would we miss the cool looking eye-candy of charts?
- NEVER USED THEM ONCE
- Sugar has been around forever and Highrise is relatively new
- Translation: Highrise is built for today's web without complicated retrofits
- Sugar charges an arm and a leg for all the web 2.0 stuff (that's right I said 2.0 as in 2.yesterday)
So it came down to one word: simplicity. As an independent, constantly-morphing publishing house living in a wonderfully evolving market, keeping it simple matters and we avoid the word "procedure" like the plague. If you need to wrap a procedure around complicated administrivia, it is just too complicated. At least, we try to keep that in mind.
AND, for all you tech-head types out there, they are a Ruby/onRails shop, so you know they are relevant!
Tuesday, August 24, 2010
BlueHead Aligns with Media Liaison, Jenée Arthur
BlueHead Publishing is excited to announce its alignment with Relihann-Satterlee's Jenée Arthur for the promotion of its author, D.a. Thompson and his work, "Over Coffee: A Conversation For Gay Partnership & Conservative Faith."
"Over Coffee" is a narrative piece couched in a coffee-house conversation between the author and a small-town pastor concerning a gay church member who desires to be partnered in the church. D.a. warmly introduces the reader to a conservative, faith-based dialogue for providing room on the pew in today's most conservative churches for gay partnered persons.
Jenée Arthur, with Rellihan-Satterlee, is a media liaison representing clients through a strong introductory voice to publishers, niche markets and the overall media.
The author, "D.a." Thompson, a Seattle Washington based writer, speaker, and musician is tackling some of the front burner issues of today through a unique and diverse world view. Raised in the conservative church and having studied to be a conservative minister, D.a. brings a discerning understanding of the conservative mind, faith, and framework. His full-spectrum engagement lends a trifecta of consideration and reflection even now igniting controversy. D.a. is expanding restrained horizons by mind, mouth, and music.
More information please contact BlueHead Publishing.
"Over Coffee" is a narrative piece couched in a coffee-house conversation between the author and a small-town pastor concerning a gay church member who desires to be partnered in the church. D.a. warmly introduces the reader to a conservative, faith-based dialogue for providing room on the pew in today's most conservative churches for gay partnered persons.
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| Jenée Arthur, Rellihan-Satterlee |
The author, "D.a." Thompson, a Seattle Washington based writer, speaker, and musician is tackling some of the front burner issues of today through a unique and diverse world view. Raised in the conservative church and having studied to be a conservative minister, D.a. brings a discerning understanding of the conservative mind, faith, and framework. His full-spectrum engagement lends a trifecta of consideration and reflection even now igniting controversy. D.a. is expanding restrained horizons by mind, mouth, and music.
More information please contact BlueHead Publishing.
Sunday, August 1, 2010
blueheadpublishing.com goes live!
We are excited to launch our new website. Feel free to poke around and see what's new.
For those of you hackers out there... all of the source code for the site is available on github.com and open to the public. Yup! Completely open. You can check out the code and have fun with it (or even help us out by contributing back - we'll give ya props!!)
Click here for our source code repository.
We also have a ticket management site that is open to the public. Yup! Again, completely open. You see what we see...even our embarrassing mistakes (it's what happens at 2am). You can help us by letting us know what to fix, and seeing what is to come down the road!
Click here for our issue tracking.
For those of you hackers out there... all of the source code for the site is available on github.com and open to the public. Yup! Completely open. You can check out the code and have fun with it (or even help us out by contributing back - we'll give ya props!!)
Click here for our source code repository.
We also have a ticket management site that is open to the public. Yup! Again, completely open. You see what we see...even our embarrassing mistakes (it's what happens at 2am). You can help us by letting us know what to fix, and seeing what is to come down the road!
Click here for our issue tracking.
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