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I needed to merge together several SVN repositories together. After browsing a bit, I found a simple perl script named svn-merge-repos.pl published on December 2007 by Fabien Coelho. This script allows you to merge multiple repositories, properly interleaving the revisions by date. It also allows you to set specific target paths for the repositories being merged. The only issue I ran into was the limitation that you cannot target the same new directory as the destination for multiple repository sources on the same run....

Yesterday I was looking for a quick start guide for LaTeX that could help someone who never used it before to get going. After a bit of browsing I ran into a quick guide to LaTeX by Joost Winne. It may not be the most exhaustive and detailed one, but it is well organized and definitely a good place to start. If you are looking for more nothing can beat “The LaTeX Companion”....

Rose Tyler and The Doctor traveling away in the Tardis again. Long long time since last time we met. I am just catching up with the good old Doctor. The new BBC version is pretty interesting, although I still miss some of the old low budget versions. Started season three yesterday while typing some stuff away :)

Lately I have been exploring different alternatives for coordinating the execution of distributed applications. Yes, you guessed it right, I am working on the distribution of the execution of Meandre flows. Chopping the data-intensive flow and mapping the chunks onto a set of distributed processors requires several elements (graph analysis, resource management, etc.). However, the basic element that needs to be solved first is the need for a reliable and scalable coordination system....

A while ago Kumara Sastry introduced me to the beauty of SlideShare. I have been using SlideShare services for a while in the little blogging I do to upload, share, embed, and display some of my presentations. The other day David E. Goldberg introduced me to Scribd. The site takes the SlideShare idea further and allows you to use their services as a publish-it-yourself site. It also allows you to embed the document on your page, as SlideShare does....