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March, 2020 5

The End of 10-Digit ISBNs

A small post that’s a little off my normal beat — sometimes software feels like a never ending series of Y2K like paper cuts. ISBNs are cross-publisher serial numbers for books. If you’re publishing a book, and you want to tap into global supply chains (i.e. have stores be able to order and stock your book), you need to [...]

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Pestle Windows Support

Here’s two quick stories about providing native Windows support for pestle. Home Directory The first issue boiled down to our using the following code to get a user’s home directory $home = trim(`echo ~`); if(!is_dir($home)) { throw new Exception("Could not find home directory with echo ~"); } This works for the *nix [...]

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