http://markelikalderon.com Philosophy and Text Thu, 28 Aug 2008 21:44:01 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Joachim Horvath posts on how to use Netvibes, an online news reader, to share philosophy feeds. Well done, Joachim! http://markelikalderon.com/blog/2008/08/28/netvibes-and-philosophy-feeds/ 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 ... http://markelikalderon.com/blog/2008/08/28/bbedit-9/ [caption id="attachment_517" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="sympoze"][/caption] 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 ... http://markelikalderon.com/blog/2008/08/27/sympoze/ 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 ... http://markelikalderon.com/blog/2008/08/26/pushing-and-tracking-remote-branches-with-git/ Are you a delicate flower? Does 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 ... http://markelikalderon.com/blog/2008/08/25/delicate-flower/ A harbinger of TM2? http://markelikalderon.com/blog/2008/08/20/portent/ 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 ... http://markelikalderon.com/blog/2008/08/19/real-men-dont-use-semicolons/ 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. ... http://markelikalderon.com/blog/2008/08/12/post-commit-hooks/ 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} ... http://markelikalderon.com/blog/2008/08/05/latex-and-the-logic-of-sectioning/ 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. http://markelikalderon.com/blog/2008/08/03/clear-pond/ 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, ... http://markelikalderon.com/blog/2008/07/31/keeping-your-latex-preamble-in-a-git-submodule/ 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 ... http://markelikalderon.com/blog/2008/07/29/cuil-not-so-cool/ 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 ... http://markelikalderon.com/blog/2008/07/25/bitbucket/ 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 ... http://markelikalderon.com/blog/2008/07/25/philosophy-feeds/ Scott Chacon is maintaining this site, a useful compendium of git resources. http://markelikalderon.com/blog/2008/07/25/git-resource/ Reed College offers advice on how to make LaTeX look like Word. My reaction. http://markelikalderon.com/blog/2008/07/24/dumbing-down-latex/ 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 =) http://markelikalderon.com/blog/2008/07/22/wordle/ 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 ... http://markelikalderon.com/blog/2008/07/22/the-gist-of-latex/ From the rut---typographic snoot gone gangsta: [caption id="attachment_434" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="This cartoon wrote a sweary word on your toilet wall."][/caption] http://markelikalderon.com/blog/2008/07/17/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 ... http://markelikalderon.com/blog/2008/07/17/mardown-plugin-for-eclipse/