In what is widely regarded as a nuisance suit, Thomson Reuters, the maker of Endnote, is suing GMU for their support in developing the open source bibliographic software Zotero. For more on the controversy see here, here, and here. In a recent announcement, GMU reports that they will be dropping their Endnote license: With litigation […]
As I posted earlier, gist is a Git powered pastebin service. Very handy. Handier still would be a command line interface to gist. Thanks to Github’s own Chris Wanstrath, aka defunkt, a command line interface with gist is now a reality. To install: curl http://github.com/defunkt/gist/tree/master%2Fgist.rb?raw=true > gist && chmod 755 gist && sudo mv gist […]
China has blocked access to GitHub. See here
One of the features of MacTeX 2008 that I was looking forward to was its inclusion of SyncTeX, Jerome Laurens replacement for pdfsync. There are two ways to call SyncTeX, from the command line and in source. From the command line simply use the argument -synctex=1, and from source include \synctex=1 in the preamble. The […]
Ryan Paul in an Ars Technica article, Byte-sized stories: Twittering a tiny tale, wonders about philosophy and microblogging: Microblogging can clearly work with fiction, but what about more substantive works, like philosophical treatises? In a moment of intoxication inspiration, I came up with a quick Python one-liner1 to compute how many lines in an English […]
MacTeX 2008 has just been released. Here are some of the new features: Packages in TeX Live 2008 can be updated over the internet. This is a major advance in the distribution. See documentation about the TeX Live Manager for details, and read the tlmgr man page. Additional documentation for the Mac is forthcoming; see […]
The annual Git survey is out. If you are a Git user, here is a chance to give the maintainers your feedback.
Joachim Horvath posts on how to use Netvibes, an online news reader, to share philosophy feeds. Well done, Joachim!
BBEdit 9 has just been released. Too many features to list here, but this caught my eye: BBEdit now handles the (badly chosen, IMO) “txmt:” URL scheme. This allows properly formed “txmt:” URLs generated by the Ruby On Rails “FootNotes” plug-in (and some others) to open files in BBEdit and (optionally) select a requested line […]
sympoze is a social bookmarking site for philosophers. Currently in beta, sympoze is only open to professional philosophers and graduate students. Not only can you submit links but sympoze has the following features: Voting on submitted links User profiles Online status Instant messaging Looks to be an excellent online resource if enough philosophers participate—and not […]
I write at home and at work, so it is natural for me to use a remote repository to keep track of my work—even with Git. Distributed version control may not force this workflow on you the way subversion does, but the cool thing about Git is that it doesn’t force any particular workflow—it can […]
Are you a delicate flower? Do spelling mistakes and profanity in comments feeds make you cringe? YouTube Comment Snob may be for you. This is a Firefox extension that filters out “undesirable” comments fro YouTube comments threads. The following rules are available: More than # spelling mistakes: The number of mistakes is customizable, and the […]
A harbinger of TM2?
Apparently. Jan Freeman in an article, Sex and the semicolon, reports the views of Ben McIntyre writing for the Times of London (otherwise unattributed—like many sites relying on advertising, the Boston Globe seems not to use external links, see O’Reilly for an explanation): Kurt Vonnegut called the marks “transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing.” Hemingway and […]
Commit hooks, scripts run when you commit to your repository, can be handy and are readily adaptable to a variety of workflows. Here is a quick and dirty post commit hook that I use for my dotfiles, remind files, and my todo list. These are kept in lightweight git repositories. Moreover, I want to push […]
In LaTeX, sections and subsections lack closing tags. So a section with a subsection followed by another section would be represented like so: \section{A Section} \subsection{A Subsection} \section{Another Section} A lack of closing tags, however, is far from being structurally innocent. Suppose, instead, we had sections and subsections represented like LaTeX environments: \begin{section}{A Section} \begin{subsection}{A […]
A quick TextMate theme I knocked off since I need a light theme but hated the available white themes. It is hosted at GitHub, so git users can get theme with git clone git://github.com/PhilGeek/clear-pond.git. Other wise, it can be downloaded here.
One of the much vaunted conceptual advantages of structural markup is the separation of form and content. In LaTeX, the preamble determines the the form of the document, how it is to be typeset, while the main body determines the content of the document and should contain only structural markup, markup that specifies the logical […]
So I tried out cuil, the search engine founded by former Google employees that is meant to give more relevant returns by doing a semantic analysis of webpages. Meh. I tried several searches and none returned as reliable results as Google. I tried a couple vanity searches (natch), some research related searches, some searches for […]
BitBucket is providing mercurial hosting: Bitbucket is a place for you and your team to host and follow your Mercurial projects. Mercurial is a so-called DVCS, or Distributed Version Control System, a new paradigm in version control, rapidly substituting the likes of Subversion and CVS. We have plans for several purposes, including an extremely generous […]
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