A Book That Shape the Meaning of Happiness

Whew this month seems about personal stuff at all.

This time I want to share a book (& essays) from Andi Carloff, his weblink is in the left links pane (top). While it's not too obvious where the happiness is, this book surely draw the line of life principles which somewhat compatible with mine. Thus help me how I define happiness in my life. The book contains many raw truth of life that often washed out by common public opinion, talk about the norm and hypocrisy.

Maybe this book is not everyone's taste but after watch the whole middle-east revolution recently, I've come to realize more the importance of freedom and how any individual should know early on what they had by default. These encouraged me to share it so anyone who can't afford the internet could enjoy Andi Carloff's work at home.

I've asked his permission months ago to reproduce his website as chm e-book. Here is:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2554170/punkersloot.chm (38.7 MB)
this book is a copyleft 

Django-1.2.3 Docs in CHM

Meet Django

Django is a high-level Python Web framework that encourages rapid development and clean, pragmatic design.

Developed four years ago by a fast-moving online-news operation, Django was designed to handle two challenges: the intensive deadlines of a newsroom and the stringent requirements of the experienced Web developers who wrote it. It lets you build high-performing, elegant Web applications quickly.

Django focuses on automating as much as possible and adhering to the DRY principle.

They will prepared for version 1.3, right now 1.2.3 is the last stable version. Ning in this site has made a bookmarked and clean chm version (download). Great for windows user!
I decided to made it myself it's plain easy actually: "make htmlhelp" and let Html Help Workshop do the rest!
For Django 1.3:
Djangodoc.chm

Blender 2.4 Documentation in CHM

This is my first attempt to create CHM format of Blender's Wiki pages. I use HTTrack with some deliberate scan rules (filter) to only include Manual, Reference, Books and Tutorials in english. Later I use some simple regex to trim and strip unnecessary part.

However I want to keep the navigation feature to aid the poor bookmark so I need several regexes to be applied. Once completed, I start to realize that it was too big, the images alone consume 180MB.
I've managed to optimize images file to almost half of original. Now it's 100MB CHM (with images)
PNG: First, files > 50KB converted to 8bit depth, then all PNG optimized with optipng
JPG: Optimized with jpegoptim 75%
GIF: Optimized with gifsicle

Here is how I fetch it from blender's wiki using HTTrack
At first, I don't know how the sitemap looks like so I start it without filter and downloading only html pages. After some hours HTTrack finished with very messy result. I browse it quite a while to find out which important, which should be included etc. And here is the scan rules for English documentation:

+*.png +*.gif +*.jpg +*.css +*.js -ad.doubleclick.net/* -mime:application/foobar -*title=* -*BlenderWiki:* -*Category:* -*Org:* -*Meta:* -*Talk:* -*User:* -*-Flag-* -*Special:* -*File:* -*:2.5/* -*action=* -*section=* -*stylish.swf* -*Attic:* -*Robotics:* -*Dev:* -*index.php/BlenderDev* -*Template:* -*/invalid_files/* -*Help:* -*index.php/AR/* -*:AR/* -*index.php/BG/* -*:BG/* -*index.php/BR/* -*:BR/* -*index.php/CA/* -*:CA/* -*index.php/CZ/* -*:CZ/* -*index.php/DE/* -*:DE/* -*index.php/DK/* -*:DK/* -*index.php/EL/* -*:EL/* -*index.php/ES/* -*:ES/* -*index.php/FA/* -*:FA/* -*index.php/FI/* -*:FI/* -*index.php/FR/* -*:FR/* -*index.php/ID/* -*:ID/* -*index.php/IT/* -*:IT/* -*index.php/KO/* -*:KO/* -*index.php/MN/* -*:MN/* -*index.php/NL/* -*:NL/* -*index.php/PL/* -*:PL/* -*index.php/PT/* -*:PT/* -*index.php/RO/* -*:RO/* -*index.php/RU/* -*:RU/* -*index.php/SV/* -*:SV/* -*index.php/TH/* -*:TH/* -*index.php/TR/* -*:TR/* -*index.php/ZH/* -*:ZH/*

The language filter could be much simpler if HTTrack support regex...
After refetch the wiki for second time, I have relatively clean dump.

Here is the files: (dedicated to all users who CAN'T afford internet connection, somebody please mirror but only with direct links not rapidshit, ziddumb or other craps)

Preview

Blender249Man.chm Contain manual in English, 30MB (This is the main file and linked to 4 files below)
Blender249Books.chm Books that converted to html, 32MB
Blender249Tuts.chm Tutorials and Theory, 31MB
Blender249API.chm Python API and Game Engine API for Blender 2.49, 1MB
Blender249Ref.chm Contain Reference, FAQ and Scripts Catalog, 6MB

To decompile use 7zip or run hh -decompile [chmfile]

Blender249Doc.chm (july 13, 2010) the whole text only version and very basic, 6.8MB

Enjoy!

Offline Valadoc and CHM

Finally after 3 days, wget has now completely retrieved http://www.valadoc.org
Inside this 7zip archive is localized-link of valadoc and vala-draft, I also supplying HtmlHelpProject for compiling into chm format (requires HtmlHelpWorkshop). All you need is load the project file and click compile, valadoc.chm will be created after a while. Due to filesize (around 50MB) I was unable to upload it for now.

valadoc-051510 (valadoc.org as retrieved at May 15 2010, 453MB uncompressed; 52MB as CHM)