Utility – Page 9 – Wisdom And Wonder

tufte-latex

The tufte-handout document class defines a style similar to the style Edward Tufte uses in his books and handouts. Tufte’s style is known for its extensive use of sidenotes, tight integration of graphics with text, and well-set typography

(via comp.text.tex)

Carneades

Carneades is an argument mapping application, with a graphical user interface, and a software library for building applications supporting various argumentation tasks.

The interesting thing about this is that it is written in both JavaFX and R6RS Scheme!
(via comp.lang.scheme)

THE way to draw graphs in LaTeX

Per Rafael, tkz-berge.sty is the way to draw graphs in LaTeX.

PGF and TikZ

PGF is a TeX macro package for generating graphics. It is platform- and format-independent and works together with the most important TeX backend drivers, including pdftex and dvips. It comes with a user-friedly syntax layer called TikZ.

(via this post on the PLT list)

There are a lot of tools out there for mirroring data, but sometimes you just want to do something very simple: download the latest contents of a FTP directory while leaving what you have already downloaded alone. wget supports a mirror command that provides this exact functionality. Just enter the directory where you would like to store the mirror and execute this command:

wget --mirror [prot]://[username]:[password]@[hostname]/[directory to mirror]

Slide40 – Presentations with 8-bit style

Slide40 is a program for displaying slide presentations in a style inspired by the personal computers of the late 1970’s. The display mimics a TV screen showing only 40 columns of text in an all-caps font built from big blocky fuzzy pixels. I created it partly as a joke, and partly as a minimalist artistic reaction to the highly-decorative but meaningless presentations made by abusers of modern presentation software.

Remove .svn files recursively

Today I needed to convert a Subversion working copy (aka a checkout) into an export. Recursively blowing away all of the .svn directories in DOS (Windows XP) didn’t seem to be straightforward so I ended up using UNIX find in cygwin. Here is the command:

find . -type d -name '.svn' -exec rm -rf {} \;

The command was provided here, and the following is documentation from the man page.

find :: Execute the find command
. :: Path in which to start
-type d :: File is of type ’d’, a directory.
-name ’.svn’ :: The file name on which to match, .svn.
-exec rm -rf {} \; :: Execute this command for every file that is found. The string ’{}’ is replaced by the current file name being processed. The semi-colon is escaped by a backslash. While reading the man page, I also found that you probably should enclose the braces in single quote marks.

Updated: Switching Caps Lock with Control on Windows

See here.

Shelves in Subversion

This blog post looks like it might be a good introduction to the idea of “Code Shelves” and how one might use them in Subversion.

wp-syntax-rettke

Out of the box, WP-Syntax colors code using the default GeSHi colors. Per the authors advice in the ‘Advanced Customization’ section of Other Notes, you can configure GeSHi yourself by handling the wp_syntax_init_geshi hook and configuring it programmatically.
Since I wanted to do just that, I decided to publish a generic plugin, called wp-syntax-rettke, for folks who wanted to configure GeSHi following this approach.

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