D.J. Webber's Blog
January 8, 2010
Sorry, No Oomlings but New Baby
I forgot to note on this blog that I had to retire the Oomlings website. Maybe I'll resurrect it when I have more time but for now I'm way to busy with the new baby, a little girl, who arrived on the 4th Jan.
She hasn't got a name yet. Any suggestions?
She hasn't got a name yet. Any suggestions?
December 11, 2009
Oomlings Giveaway
I have just created another book giveaway at my nascent social network "Oomlings". You stand a much better chance "winning" a copy there!
http://oomlings.ning.com/profiles/blo...
http://oomlings.ning.com/profiles/blo...
Oomlings!
Oomlings!
By davew1977
I just planted another seed and started a Ning social network: http://oomlings.ning.com/.
Join now and help shape it! Not sure what it will be yet. Maybe it will just be a chatroom for the family, maybe we could become a group of science enthusiasts discussing how the technology in the book might be made possible in the future.
It was childishly simple to set up a Ning social network. Ning was recommended to me by my computer savvy mum a while ago. Ning looks VERY much like facebook with a different CSS stylesheet, but the difference is you can have your own little bubble for you and your friends. I guess Ning hasn’t really taken off like facebook, precisely because its networks are closed. But it’s great software!
By davew1977
I just planted another seed and started a Ning social network: http://oomlings.ning.com/.
Join now and help shape it! Not sure what it will be yet. Maybe it will just be a chatroom for the family, maybe we could become a group of science enthusiasts discussing how the technology in the book might be made possible in the future.
It was childishly simple to set up a Ning social network. Ning was recommended to me by my computer savvy mum a while ago. Ning looks VERY much like facebook with a different CSS stylesheet, but the difference is you can have your own little bubble for you and your friends. I guess Ning hasn’t really taken off like facebook, precisely because its networks are closed. But it’s great software!
December 6, 2009
Novello
I am currently working hard to make my novel writing software tool "Novello" available for others to use. I have laid down the bare bones of the website here: novello.sourceforge.net.
It will of course be free for anyone to use.
One of the most interesting aspects about my software is that it uses something called Subversion to store your novel document. This means that several people can work on the document at the same time (as opposed to Microsoft Word where you have to email the document around and you completely lose track of which is the latest version). This is useful because it means that your editor (my mum in my case) can go in to your book and add comments and make minor corrections.
I am also toying with the idea of starting some sort of collaborative writing project with the software. This idea is just a seed at the moment. I am not the first to try this (google for "collaborative novel"), but no-one has really succeeded at this yet (please correct me if I am wrong) so it is a worthy challenge.
It will of course be free for anyone to use.
One of the most interesting aspects about my software is that it uses something called Subversion to store your novel document. This means that several people can work on the document at the same time (as opposed to Microsoft Word where you have to email the document around and you completely lose track of which is the latest version). This is useful because it means that your editor (my mum in my case) can go in to your book and add comments and make minor corrections.
I am also toying with the idea of starting some sort of collaborative writing project with the software. This idea is just a seed at the moment. I am not the first to try this (google for "collaborative novel"), but no-one has really succeeded at this yet (please correct me if I am wrong) so it is a worthy challenge.
