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, […]
As promised links to philosophy feeds. The list is not exhaustive and there are some gaps. Cambridge journals have not been included since the feeds seem only to be available to individual subscribers and not institutional subscribers. If there are any additions you would like please let me know and I will update the list. […]
Scott Chacon is maintaining this site, a useful compendium of git resources.
Reed College offers advice on how to make LaTeX look like Word.
My reaction.
Wordle is a web service that generates word clouds from submitted text. Here are a couple of examples. The first is from my paper “Color Pluralism”:
The second is from my paper “Respecting Value”:
Too fun =)
GitHub has just launched Gist, a Git driven pastebin service. It is very handy to have a lightweight public (or private) repository. From the GitHub blog (see also here), Bryan Liles demos Gist:
BryanL demos Gist: A Super Hot Pastebin from Bryan Liles on […]
From the rut—typographic snoot gone gangsta:
Daniel Winterstein has just released a new version of his Markdown plugin for Eclipse. From the Markdown mailing list:
There’s syntax highlighting, a preview window, and it can export to html. The best feature is the document outline, which is a joy for editing large documents. Plus you can use TODO tags and these […]
As a quick test of ScreenFlow, I put together this screencast explaining how the interaction of Desktop Curtain and Exposé can fruitfully exploited.
Desktop Curtain from PhilGeek on Vimeo.
When I first made the switch from Word to LaTeX, I felt the need for a dedicated LaTeX editor to provide help and guidance. Fortunately for OS X users, there is Dick Koch’s TeXShop. I was lucky. It did just what I expected and it comfortably eased me into the world of TeX. I no […]
Previewing at 1.0, Cornerstone, a GUI Subversion front end has been released.
Daring Fireball, as ever, with the wry commentary:
It strikes me as an odd coincidence that two serious Subversion clients would debut at a time when many developers are starting to switch away from Subversion to distributed revision control systems such as Git […]
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