iPhone and your Wordpress

A while back I wrote about a Wordpress theme specially designed for you iPhone. Yesterday, a colleague make aware of another one. This one is called WPhone Admin Plugin and below you can find its description in their own terms. WPhone allows you to use a custom admin interface while interacting with your WordPress install via your phone. It contains two versions of the mobile admin interface: ...

Jun 4, 2008 · 1 min · 138 words · Xavier Llorà

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 .bib files easily, it provides a nice service integration with TeX. BibDesk also come with a great intuitive graphic interface, the ability to hook you to libraries on the net, and it allows you to export entries to EndNote, Word, RTF, Atom, RSS, etc. Zotero is another great tool for managing your bibliography if you do not always have a Mac at hand. Zotero is a plugin for Firefox. It provides the same functionalities of BibDesk but with a twist. When browsing over the net, if you run into a site which is COinS aware (libraries, newspapers, blogs, etc.), with a simple click you can store that bibliography entry straight to the Zotero bibliography data base. The bibliographic entries are also exportable to BibTeX, RDF, and RIS—to mention a few. The last one is JabRef. Written in Java, you can easily use it on any platform that supports Java. They also provide a WebStart version of JabRef. As BibDesk and Zotero, you can import/export bibliography entries in a wide variety of formats, add annotations, etc. Also, the ability to use JabRef across different platforms may be a plus if your are moving between Windows, Linux, Mac, Solaris, etc. ...

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