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Wednesday, 24 October 2012

LaTeX errors

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This article contains a list of LaTeX errors - good to know: http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~witchel/errorclasses.html Thoughts?

(La)TeX resources

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Looking for LaTeX online renderer, came across this link that covers quite a few that are good: http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/3/...
Friday, 19 October 2012

Groovy iteration - great resource

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Groovy allows you to use "short-written" constructs (such as each or find ) to run through lists or easily find one or several ite...
Thursday, 18 October 2012

Google - LaTeX labs

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Want a quick and easy way of rendering LaTeX online? Try out the Google LaTeX labs tool. It's not a Google tool but it does work pretty...
Wednesday, 17 October 2012

Method Object pattern

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"The Method Object implementation pattern suggests turning a complex method into an object to enable further simplification. " R...

Groovy is full-OO

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Unlike Java that hawled us through (and still is) the autoboxing conundrum for primitive types , Groovy simply *is* fully object-oriented. ...

Running *.groovy

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Now, this one is interesting. You know how in Java - you call javac, the java or javaw with the classpath to run your *.class (precompiled) ...
Tuesday, 16 October 2012

Groovy

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As you can see in the previous post, lots of new programming languages are cropping up that will actually run "on" the JVM. In cle...

JVM languages

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Interesting article about Java Virtual Machine languages including Groovy, JRuby and Jython. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_JVM_lan...
Wednesday, 9 May 2012

Who moved my cheese?

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We have all heard of this book by Spencer Johnson, it's just been out for that long and used by so many companies to "help" p...
Monday, 30 April 2012

Flex: null vs undefined

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This may seem like a non-post but it's actually more important than it seems at first glance. This is when I learned that actionscrip...
Wednesday, 25 April 2012

Git merging

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Usually one wants to merge a branch back into the master (or "trunk" equivalent branch). To do so simply used: git checkout mast...
Tuesday, 24 April 2012

Git branches

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This is most certainly one of the most powerful features in git compared to tradition CVS/SVN systems. 1. you can branch locally, without ...
Monday, 23 April 2012

Git hashes

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Git identifies all its objects with a SHA-1 (40 byte) hash identifier. This way git uniquely identifies : - blobs (files) - trees (groups...
Friday, 20 April 2012

Working locally with git

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Now we have worked out how to interact with an SVN repository, let's see how we can work with git locally. Git has three "areas...
Thursday, 19 April 2012

Basic git commands

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We'll be using a classic configuration of Git over SVN. In other words, we will be running and "old" SVN repository with Git c...
Wednesday, 18 April 2012

Git overview

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We've all heard of CVS, SVN... and now more flexible systems such as Git. This a quick overview of the power of Git over SVN for insta...
Tuesday, 17 April 2012

Calibre e-book management

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A colleague recently suggested using Calibre for e-book management. It seemed like something of a leap to me, quite used to plundering throu...
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Monday, 16 April 2012

Behind closed doors: secrets of great management

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When I was young (about a year ago), I thought "The one minute manager" was a great read. I still believe it does have something t...
Friday, 13 April 2012

Batch programming: defaulting user input

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This is a really simple script which sets a variable to a default value if the user doesn't provide input when asked. set /P val=Pleas...
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