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{ Monthly Archives } June 2008

Viva La Revolución

Kieran Healey has followed my lead and posted his sociology BibTeX files on GitHub. I could only be happier if someone forked me. C’mon, baby, fork me, fork me!

Update Kieran posts about it here.

2008 06 29 Mark Eli Kalderon Academic Publishing
BibTeX
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Ruby Gems and Google Charts

As any occasional reader of Edward Tufte will know, sometimes a well designed graphic can simply and effectively convey complex information. The need for graphics may be greater in the sciences than in philosophy, but even here, it can sometimes help. For example, I had a hard time explaining to my students the difference between […]

2008 06 28 Mark Eli Kalderon Ruby Comments (0)

Subversion 1.5

Subversion 1.5 is out. This is a major release that promised to address many of the problems with merging. New features include:

Merge tracking (foundational) Sparse checkouts (via new –depth option) Interactive conflict resolution Changelist support Relative URLs, peg revisions in svn:externals Cyrus SASL support for ra_svn and svnserve Improved support for large deployments on FSFS, via sharding Improved FSFS optimizability, via immutable […]

2008 06 25 Mark Eli Kalderon subversion
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AppleScript Trojan Horse

SecureMac has reported an AppleScript Trojan Horse in the wild. They recommend running MacScan 2.5.2 to fix the vulnerability. For those not afraid of Terminal fu, there is an easier fix:

$ sudo chmod 0555 /System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/ARDAgent.app/Contents/MacOS/ARDAgent

2008 06 22 Mark Eli Kalderon OS X Comments (0)

Aquamacs 1.4

Version 1.4 of Aquamacs, the Aqua-native build of Emacs, has just been released, and has a number of interesting features making it an even better OS X citizen:

New multi-tabbed interface similar to Safari. This makes switching between open files faster and more intuitive. Full screen editing now available. This allows you to focus just on editing […]

2008 06 20 Mark Eli Kalderon LaTeX
OS X
Text
Text Editor
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Writing on the Soul

2008 06 19 Mark Eli Kalderon Typography Comments (0)

Academic Publishing and RSS Feeds

Some solutions to life’s inconveniences can be forehead-slapping obvious.

A paradigm shift in academic publishing is occurring—a move from dead tree sources to online resources. As I have had occasion to comment (here and here), this is a Good Thing™. However, the old paradigm is not without its virtues, perhaps not all of which will be […]

2008 06 17 Mark Eli Kalderon Academic Publishing Comments (1)

Gitting BibTeX

Academics tend to be pretty good at sharing resources. For example, most publish their research online. This is really helpful since it can take a year or two after submission to finally see its way into print.

One useful thing that academics share, though less often than their research, is their bibliographies. LaTeX is predominant in […]

2008 06 17 Mark Eli Kalderon BibTeX
Bibliography
LaTeX
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git
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Duke Nukem Forever and TextMate 2

From Crackle: Jace Hall, Ep 1: DUKE NUKEM FOREVER - SNEAK PEEK!

When can we expect TextMate 2 to be released? Here is what Alan Odgaard has to say in the TextMate 2 FAQ:

[…] there is no ETA, and I won’t speak about timing before I am certain I can provide an […]

2008 06 16 Mark Eli Kalderon Text
Text Editor
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Prescriptivism and Ressentiment

Mark Liberman at Language Log has written a nice post about the charge that linguistic descriptivism is a manifestation of what Nietzsche calls slave morality. Liberman is right in claiming that this does not make sense, but for the wrong reasons, I think.

It is odd how so many who would cite Nietzsche in support of […]

2008 06 14 Mark Eli Kalderon History
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Code Swarm

From Information Aesthetics, a link to code_swarm:

This visualization, called code_swarm, shows the history of commits in a software project. A commit happens when a developer makes changes to the code or documents and transfers them into the central project repository. Both developers and files are represented as moving elements. When a developer commits […]

2008 06 13 Mark Eli Kalderon version control Comments (0)

Prologemena to Any Future Bibliography

Stability is a precondition for the possibility of citation.

Consider direct quotation—no easy phenomena. Part of the point of citation, here, is so that the reader can read the quotation in context, to decide for themselves whether the quoted author has been misrepresented. The usual case is to quote from a dead tree source—a printed book […]

2008 06 13 Mark Eli Kalderon Academic Publishing
Bibliography
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Bash Prompt Redux

OK, so you know a meeting is boring when you would rather redo your bash prompt. (And, yes, as a consequence, I have come to appreciate the point of running a headless meeting.) I wanted my bash prompt to tell me a number of things:

Who am I? Where am I? Which branch of a Git repository am […]

2008 06 11 Mark Eli Kalderon UNIX
git
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Apple and Framemaker

Daringfireball reports that a Leopard Security Configurartion book from Apple was produced by Framemaker 6.0 available in Classic only. It is pathetic that Framemaker is not available on OS X since it is available on Windows and UNIX (Isn’t OS X UNIX?). I don’t think that everything typeset with an Apple computer should be done with […]

2008 06 06 Mark Eli Kalderon OS X Comments (0)

Versions Not Vaporware After All

Check it out.

Will try to review it later. But one interesting feature is its integration with Beanstalk that provides one 20MB Subversion repository for free. Smart move for the casual user who might still be intimidated by the command line interface.

2008 06 05 Mark Eli Kalderon Versions
subversion
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Migrating from Subversion to Git

Having decided to try out Git, I was excited to learn that Git could interface with Subversion repositories via git-svn. git-svn provides a bidirectional flow of changesets from a branch of a Subversion repository and any number of branches in a Git repository. The problem that I soon encountered should be evident from this description—you […]

2008 06 05 Mark Eli Kalderon Text
git
subversion
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Chacon Git Tech Talk

Scott Chacon, author of the very nice Peepcode title Git Internals, Source Code Control and Beyond, has given a Git Tech Talk at RailsConf 2008:

RailsConf 2008 Git Talk by Scot Chacon Video from daniel wanja on Vimeo.

The slides of his talk are also […]

2008 06 02 Mark Eli Kalderon git
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Versions or Vaporware?

Versions, the GUI Mac subversion client is still vaporware, but there is a review of the prerelease beta at Theocacao. Though I am shifting over to Git, I am still curious how Versions will stack up against svnX.

2008 06 02 Mark Eli Kalderon Hybrid Application
Versions
svnX
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