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How to put PDF properties in a LaTeX file — The Endeavour
"My previous post described how to put links in a PDF file generated from LaTeX. The hyperref package that lets you to include links also lets you to set PDF document properties. I’ve been using Adobe Acrobat to do this after creating my PDF file with pdflatex, but that’s unnecessary. Here’s how to put the PDF properties directly in the LaTeX file. Add something like this…"
LaTeX  tricks  publishing  typesetting  software 
december 2011 by Vaguery
Time-saving versus work-inducing software
"What is the underlying thread? Time-saving software tends to be produced by less civilized people.  Software written by large corporations will probably be work-inducing."
getting-shit-done  efficiency  corporations  software  problem-solving  reuse 
june 2011 by Vaguery
Screencasting Software - ScreenFlow Overview - Telestream
"With Telestream ScreenFlow screencasting software, you can capture the contents of your entire monitor at the same time as you capture your video camera, microphone and computer's audio. Simple but powerful editing tools enable you to create incredible screencasts in no time.The finished result is a QuickTime or Windows Media movie, ready for publishing to your Web site or blog."
screencasting  video  software  MacOS 
may 2011 by Vaguery
AmiBroker - Technical Analysis Software. Charting, Backtesting, Scanning of stocks, futures, mutual funds, forex (currencies). Alerts. Free quotes.
"Featuring automatic Walk-Forward Testing, Multi-monitor floating charts, symbol and interval linking, drag-and-drop indicator creation, Industry fastest, Unlimited-symbol True Portfolio-Level Backtesting and Optimization, now with Smart Evolutionary algorithms, scaling, market-neutral system support and multiple currency handling, free Fundamental data, Multiple Time-Frame support, 3D optimization charts, new Account manager, automated trading interface, volume profile, object-oriented charting, drawing layers, multi-window layouts, formula-based alerts, easy-to-use formula editor, equity function, unique composite indicators, built-in web research browser, direct link to eSignal, Interactive Brokers, IQFeed, myTrack, FastTrack, QP2, TC2000, any DDE compliant feed, MS and more..."
trading  software  finance  technical-analysis  datasets  nudge-targets 
july 2010 by Vaguery
GAP System for Computational Discrete Algebra
"GAP is a system for computational discrete algebra, with particular emphasis on Computational Group Theory. GAP provides a programming language, a library of thousands of functions implementing algebraic algorithms written in the GAP language as well as large data libraries of algebraic objects. See also the overview and the description of the mathematical capabilities. GAP is used in research and teaching for studying groups and their representations, rings, vector spaces, algebras, combinatorial structures, and more. The system, including source, is distributed freely. You can study and easily modify or extend it for your special use."
mathematics  library  programming  freeware  GNU  software  more-math-than-you-can-shake-a-stick-at 
april 2010 by Vaguery
How Cobot gets Coworking Management: It’s Made of People | dangerouslyawesome
"Cobot has found a way to strike the balance between functionality that helps a coworking space run (like analytics and billing support), but also paid careful attention to the needs of the people in the space, helping them get signed up, oriented, and solve their own problems so we don’t have to do it for them. They even have a support ticket system for our members when something goes wrong. Even the pricing model is based on the members instead of the desks.

This is smart. Very smart.

Being people oriented is what’s gotten IndyHall as far as it has, and seeing software that supports that is extremely exciting for me."
coworking  management  software  business-practice  back-office 
february 2010 by Vaguery
7 Superb Social Plugins for WordPress
"If you use WordPress for your website or blog, there are lots of ways you can connect it to social media, and connect social media to your site via those nifty plugins. The right plugins can make social content management easier and reduce friction when it comes to reader sharing.

Whether you’re looking to easily share your content on social networks, make it easier for others to share your content, or simply make your own site more engaging, here are 7 great plugins that will make your WordPress site more social."
wordpress  system-administration  blogging  software  plugins  social-software  comments  community-formation 
february 2010 by Vaguery
28 Rich Data Visualization Tools - InsideRIA
"What makes my job really interesting is that these clients are in different industries and are using different technologies. So we have pulled together a set of 28 tools for creating graphs, Gantt charts, diagrammers, calendars/schedulers, gauges, mapping, pivot tables, OLAP cubes, and sparklines, in Flash, Flex, Ajax or Silverlight."
visualization  web-design  software  libraries  javascript  graphic-design  charts 
december 2009 by Vaguery
ggplot. had.co.nz
"ggplot2 is a plotting system for R, based on the grammar of graphics, which tries to take the good parts of base and lattice graphics and none of the bad parts. It takes care of many of the fiddly details that make plotting a hassle (like drawing legends) as well as providing a powerful model of graphics that makes it easy to produce complex multi-layered graphics."
visualization  data-analysis  exploratory-data-analysis  statistics  graphics  graphs  pretty  software  open-source  documentation  ggplot2  R 
november 2009 by Vaguery
Groklaw - In Re Bilski - Transcript of Today's Oral Argument at the US Supreme Court - Updated 3Xs
"Riddle me this, Batman: If you put Linux on your Windows XP computer, is it now a new computer, a new machine? Take a look. Nope. Same old dent on the bottom, same stickers next to the keyboard. Latch is loose. Duh. Same machine."
Bilski  patents  intellectual-property  Supreme-Court  software  business-methods 
november 2009 by Vaguery
Open-source software for Operations Research and Industrial Engineering
"This page contains links to some of the most useful free software and open-source software for operations research and industrial engineering."
operations-research  open-source  software  libraries  engineering  optimization  tools 
november 2009 by Vaguery
The Abstract Factory: Software patents have tangible costs for innovation, and for you
"His startup recently got sued for patent infringement by a company that independently developed a product that performs a vaguely similar function. This other company's product is much less sophisticated, and their user-facing site is an ugly, user-hostile pile of crap. The term "search arbitrage" would be a kind word to apply to this other company's product. And there is absolutely no sense in which my friend's work builds on any of this other company's technology.

Now, my friend and his partner have consulted multiple IP lawyers and they've said, "Yep, the law is probably on your side." They have also said, "You're still screwed." The trial would take forever, the legal fees would be ruinous, and in the meantime nobody will invest in a company which has a litigation cloud hanging over it."
via:cshalizi  intellectual-property  entrepreneurship  software  patents  zero-sum-it-ain't 
november 2009 by Vaguery
Computational Infrastructure for Operations Research Home Page
"The Computational Infrastructure for Operations Research (COIN-OR**, or simply COIN) project is an initiative to spur the development of open-source software for the operations research community."
operations-research  open-source  software  applied-mathematics  library 
september 2009 by Vaguery
Red Artisan: Attachment_fu magic with Core Image and Ruby Cocoa!
"Create an image manipulation class that uses Core Image
Integrate this new class into attachment_fu, by writing a new attachment_fu processor module
Optionally, update attachment_fu’s automatic image processing list, or rely on using the :processor directive in our has_attachment model definitions."
Ruby  CoreImage  Nudge  programming  software  Apple  MacOS 
september 2009 by Vaguery
FAQ: LaTeX on OSX - Adam Lindsay
"And, I wouldn't be true to myself if I didn't plump for the ConTeXt macro package as an alternative to LaTeX. If you want to write up a structured document, but it's not for a conference proceedings or journal, I would say that it's more worth putting the time in to learn the basics of ConTeXt than, say, the Memoir class in LaTeX. ConTeXt's way of separating form from content feels much cleaner than LaTeX, and I feel like the learning curve for ConTeXt has a fairly constant and gentle slope, rather than a hockey-stick-like bend for when you want to customise a Class file."
TeX  LaTeX  ConTeXt  typesetting  MacOS  documents  document-design  software  advice 
august 2009 by Vaguery
GraphClick - Graph and Movie Digitizer for Mac OS X - Free Download
"You have the picture of a graph but not the corresponding data? You want to retrieve the trajectory of an object from a QuickTime movie? GraphClick is then simply the best way to solve the problem! You just have to click on the image and the obtained coordinates of the points can be directly exported into any other application."
MacOS  visualization  data  software  tools  graphics  utility  analysis  graphing  extraction 
august 2009 by Vaguery
MachStudio Pro from StudioGPU - Real-time 3D rendering and effects for CGI, visualization and engineering
There have got to be a thousand ways to use genetic programming in this space. "StudioGPU's MachStudio Pro reinvents the 3D visualization production pipeline by putting the power of real-time graphics processing at your fingertips.
design  software  graphics  3d  rendering  cgi 
july 2009 by Vaguery
Railscasts - Metric Fu
"Metric Fu is a compilation of several tools to help find areas of code that could be improved. In this episode I show you how to setup this tool on the railscasts.com source code."
Rails  programming  profiling  optimization  testing  software  software-development 
june 2009 by Vaguery
Bee Docs Timeline - Movie: "What's New in March '09"
"One of the most popular ways for our customers to present their timelines is using Apple's Keynote software that is part of the iWork suite. Previously Bee Docs Timeline would create Keynote slides using still images of your timeline.

Now, you can quickly create full motion slides in Keynote. Each slide shows the 3D transition from one event to the next so that you can present your timeline at your own pace or even layout text and graphics on top of your timeline at appropriate places."
timelines  visualization  software  beedocs  MacOS 
june 2009 by Vaguery
ccHost - CC Wiki
"The goal of this project is to spread media content that is licensed under Creative Commons throughout the web in much the same way that weblogs spread CC licensed text."
via:jyew  remix  creative-commons  sharing  content-management  collaboration  software  community  open-source  media  freeware  opensource 
may 2009 by Vaguery
PSwarm Home Page
"PSwarm is a global optimization solver for bound and linear constrained problems (for which the derivatives of the objective function are unavailable, inaccurate or expensive).

The algorithm combines pattern search and particle swarm. Basically, it applies a directional direct search in the poll step (coordinate search in the pure simple bounds case) and particle swarm in the search step."
OpenOpt  particle-swarm  metaheuristics  optimization  software  python  opensource 
may 2009 by Vaguery
Penguicon Science Fiction and Open Source Convention
"Penguicon 7.0 will be May 1 through 3, 2009, at the Crowne Plaza hotel in Romulus, Michigan."
geeks  convention  science-fiction  blogging  conferences  Detroit  Michigan  open-source  software  Linux  computers  local 
april 2009 by Vaguery
AskTog: First Principles of Interaction Design
"The following principles are fundamental to the design and implementation of effective interfaces, whether for traditional GUI environments or the web. Of late, many web applications have reflected a lack of understanding of many of these principles of interaction design, to their great detriment. Because an application or service appears on the web, the principles do not change. If anything, applying these principles become even more important."
user-experience  design  software  programming  development  heuristics  usability  accessibility  Nudge 
march 2009 by Vaguery
Manifesto for Software Craftsmanship
"Not only working software,
but also well-crafted software

Not only responding to change,
but also steadily adding value

Not only individuals and interactions,
but also a community of professionals

Not only customer collaboration,
but also productive partnerships"
craftsman  software  software-development  software-development-is-not-programming 
march 2009 by Vaguery
tasteb.in - All Recipes
Nice, elegant interface from Brandon Dimcheff, with pastebin functionality and standard recipe semantic inference (a bit)
recipes  software  Ruby  user-experience 
march 2009 by Vaguery
OneSwarm: Privacy preserving P2P
"OneSwarm is a new P2P data sharing application we’re building to provide users with explicit control over their privacy by enabling fine-grained control over how data is shared. Instead of sharing data indiscriminately, data shared with OneSwarm can be made public, it can be shared with friends, shared with some friends but not others, and so forth. We call this friend-to-friend (F2F) data sharing. OneSwarm is:..."
p2p  peer-to-peer  privacy  framework  software  security  networking  sharing  opensource 
february 2009 by Vaguery
I Love Pair-Programming » Absolutely No Machete Juggling
"I see pairing work so well every day that I consider my career prior to my current job to have consisted mostly of wasting time. When I think back to all the code I’ve written for a job, I’m annoyed at how much less efficient I was then since I wasn’t pairing, and how much better my code and my products would have been if I had paired on them full time."
pair-programming  efficiency  risk-management  software  development  cultural-norms  TDD  productivity 
february 2009 by Vaguery
www.fadedpage.com
"Distributed Proofreaders is an online community of proofreaders who strive to make Project Gutenberg the repository of the best free electronic books available. At any moment, hundreds of volunteers are working on different phases of saving history, one page at a time. Learn more by visiting www.pgdp.net or our newest site, www.pgdpcanada.net"
Distributed-Proofreaders  software  scripts  preprocessing  digitization  bookphile 
february 2009 by Vaguery
50 Successful Open Source Projects That Are Changing Medicine
"Open source healthcare is forging forward quickly on the Internet. But, fast developments often produce many failures. But, many medicinal open source projects that have gained success development. This success shows that open source alone is not the solitary factor in development. Instead, look to great management, public relations, marketing and a sound program that stands up under the scrutiny of a growing number of peer users and, often, patients."
collaboration  medicine  diagnosis  healthcare  software  open-source 
february 2009 by Vaguery
Projects - MileMarker
"When viewed in development mode, the person div would be overlaid with a translucent gray box with the words “Milestone 6” in it, as shown below."
rails  debugging  MVC  design  software  development  TDD  markup 
february 2009 by Vaguery
The Truth about BDD
"But enough of irony. Is this useful? I think it may be. You see, one of the great benefits of describing a problem as a Finite State Machine (FSM) is that you can complete the logic of the problem. That is, if you can enumerate the states and the events, then you know that the number of paths through the system is no larger than S * E. Or, rather, there are no more than S*E transitions from one state to another. More importantly, enumerating them is simply a matter of creating a transition for every combination of state and event.

One of the more persistent problems in BDD (and TDD for that matter) is knowing when you are done. That is, how do you know that you have written enough scenarios (tests). Perhaps there is some condition that you have forgotten to explore, some pathway through the system that you have not described."
via:arsyed  software  design  BDD  programming  TDD  behavior-driven-design  analogies  finite-state-machine 
december 2008 by Vaguery
Making Agile a Reality | Agile 2009
"Agile 2009 will be an exciting international conference about techniques and technologies, attitudes and policies, research and first-hand experience, from both the management and technical sides of agile software development. The agile approach focuses on delivering business value early in the project lifetime and being able to incorporate emergent requirements. It accentuates the use of rich, informal communication channels and frequent delivery of running, tested systems, while attending to the human component of software development.

... The conference is not about a single methodology or approach, but rather provides a forum for the exchange of information regarding all agile development technologies."
agility  agile-management  conferences  conference  software 
december 2008 by Vaguery
International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering
"The Twenty-First International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering (SEKE'09) will be held at the Hyatt Harborside at Boston's Logan Int'l Airport, Boston, USA, July 1-3, 2009.

The conference aims at bringing together experts in software engineering and knowledge engineering to discuss on relevant results in either software engineering or knowledge engineering or both. Special emphasis will be put on the transference of methods between both domains."
Nudge  agent-based  engineering  engineering-design  software  complexology  evolutionary-algorithms 
december 2008 by Vaguery
Advogato: Blurring of MVC lines: Programming the Web Browser.
"php is the "language of choice" for the majority of web development, and it can be described as "The Visual Basic of Free Software" for very good reasons. Visual Basic gets a poor rap, because it is so easy to write bad code with. It takes years to become properly familiar with and proficient in Visual Basic, and php is no different. By the time a developer is familiar with php's rich and wonderful methods for self-mutilation, their lives have become so degraded that they wish they had never become programmers."
programming  MVC  design-patterns  web-design  applications  architecture  software  web2.0  development  javascript  python  essay 
december 2008 by Vaguery
The Other Half of "Artists Ship"
"The purpose of the committee is presumably to ensure that the company doesn't waste money. And yet the result is that the company pays 10 times as much."
via:nielsen  software  professionalism  decision-making  management  business-culture  open-source  agility  cultural-norms  disintermediation 
november 2008 by Vaguery
Alan’s Kiloblog » GitHub and Git: Sharing Your Code, for What It’s Worth, Without a Begging Entry into Open Source Communities
"With these people, there is nothing more offensive than the fork. You are going to split the community, take away committers. It is heresy. It is a schism.

The nature of open source on the SourceForge model is academia at it’s most petty, because the stakes could not be lower. It is not about the source code, it is about the source code repository and control to access thereof.

GitHub puts an end to this nonsense. I can develop my software and I can use GitHub to publish my software. I don’t have to work within an arbitrary community, but grow support for my software through my own social and professional network."
open-source  collaboration  control  cultural-norms  software  practice  project-management  sensibility  Mercurial  GitHub 
november 2008 by Vaguery
The Long Tail - Wired Blogs
"This is the point that everyone seems to miss: Free is not a business--it's zero-cost marketing for a business. And it works best at the largest scale: a small percentage of a big number is a big number."
freemium  marketing  software  business-model  probability  scaling  wikinomics 
november 2008 by Vaguery
Confreaks: Ruby Hoedown 2008
An excellent talk on testing legacy code. Some great insights on how to use judicious refactoring and contingent testing. Not too Ruby-specific.
refactoring  programming  TDD  BDD  legacy-code  software  development  Ruby  communication 
november 2008 by Vaguery
Internet Software Patents
"A basic theory of human endeavor suggests that the smartest people who will ever work in a field are those who work in that field when it is new."
intellectual-property  patents  stupidity  programming  software  invention  innovation  business-culture  lawyers 
february 2008 by Vaguery
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