Making blogging easy

ScribeFire is a Firefox extension that allows you to blog from the browser itself—as shown for this blog on the above screenshot. ScribeFire allows you to post to different blogs, edit past entries, select the category, and modify other post information such as the publication post date. The ScribeFire extension also allows you to blog about the current page you are browsing or to add it to your delicious bookmarks....

Jun 3, 2008 · 1 min · 70 words · Xavier Llorà

Looking for code examples?

Are you looking for some code sniped? Are you looking for some freely available code available on the net written on a specific language? If the answer is yes, you may want to take a look at Google Code Search. I just canned a few examples below. Genetic algorithm in Python Genetic algorithm in C Genetic algorithm in Java

Jun 2, 2008 · 1 min · 59 words · Xavier Llorà

Managing your LaTeX bibliography

There are a lot of tools out there to help you manage your LaTeX bibliography collection. I just want to mention three of them: BibDesk, Zotero, and JabRef. I am a heavy user for the first one. I run into BibDesk the first time I installed LaTeX on a Mac. BibDesk was the tool that stopped me from writing my .bib files by hand—as I did for a long time. Besides allowing to manage your ....

May 30, 2008 · 2 min · 273 words · Xavier Llorà

Adventures of a mathematician

Preparing the list of reading for the summer vacation, I finally got a copy of Ulam’s autobiography. Mainly know for his contribution to the Manhattan project, Stanislaw Ulam may have been one of the most influential mathematicians of the 20th century. Close friend to another giant—John von Newman—, Stanislaw contributions have affected a wide range of scientific disciplines. A friend recommended me this book a while ago. The book went into the must-read queue, but till yesterday it did not make it to the head :)

May 29, 2008 · 1 min · 86 words · Xavier Llorà

On writing well

Writing can be a fun exercise. However, like many other skills, you have to do your best to develop the craft. Regularly I reread two books trying to remind me that I should never give up on trying to improve such an important skill. The two books are: “Elements of Style” by Strunk & White “On Writing Well” by Zinsser Another one to also throw to the mix is “Writing with power: Techniques for mastering the writing process” by Elbow....

May 28, 2008 · 1 min · 106 words · Xavier Llorà