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karlseguin
Scaling Viki
About
Scaling Viki is a free book detailing the redesign of Viki.com's platform.
The book was written by Karl Seguin, with co-creator Cristobal Viedma's assistance.
If you liked this book, maybe you'll also like my The Little Redis Book or The Little MongoDB Book.
License
The book is freely distributed under the Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported license.
Formats
The book is written in Markdown and converted to PDF using Pandoc.
The TeX template makes use of Lena Herrmann's JavaScript highlighter.
Kindle and ePub format provided using Pandoc.
Generating books
Packages listed below are for Ubuntu. If you use another OS or distribution names would be similar.
Dependencies
Packages:
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pandoc -
texlive-xetex -
texlive-latex-extra -
texlive-latex-recommended
You should have Microsoft fonts installed too. But you could change fonts in common/pdf-template.tex file if you want.
Building
Run make en/scaling-viki.pdf.
ePub
Dependencies
Packages:
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pandoc
Building
Run make en/scaling-viki.epub.
Mobi
Dependencies
Packages:
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pandoc
You should have KindleGen installed too.
Building
Run make en/scaling-viki.mobi.
Title Image
A PSD of the title image is included. The font used is Comfortaa.
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