The PracTeX Journal is the online journal of TUG. It is devoted to "getting things done" in TeX, LaTeX, and friends. A typical issue of The PracTeX Journal may include: articles on projects or activities accomplished through the use of TeX; short articles about problems that were resolved through the use of TeX or problems with TeX that were resolved; a write-up on how to use a useful LaTeX package; a column by a guest columnist; questions answered by a guest expert; a column for beginners; relevant announcements.
Biblatex is a complete reimplementation of the bibliographic facilities provided by LaTeX in conjunction with BibTeX. It redesigns the way in which LaTeX interacts with BibTeX at a fairly fundamental level. With biblatex, BibTeX is only used (if it is used at all) to sort the bibliography and to generate labels. Formatting of the bibliography is entirely controlled by TeX macros (the BibTeX-based mechanism embeds some parts of formatting in the BibTeX style file. Good working knowledge in LaTeX should be sufficient to design new bibliography and citation styles; nothing related to BibTeX’s language is needed.