musings of a computer engineering researcher
I happy to announce wkpdf version 0.3.0 – a new implementation of wkpdf, on which I have been working over the last months. This version does not provide any major, user-visible features but is mainly a re-implementation in the Ruby programming language. Since Mac OS X 10.5 Apple ships the operating system with a full Ruby [...]
Github has added an issue tracker for all hosted projects. It gives us great pleasure to announce our integrated issue tracking system! On repository pages you’ll now see an “Issues” tab in the top menu. I have been longing for this feature for a long time. Time to say goodbye to my privately hosted Trac [...]
When preparing a list of my publications, I had the wish to sort the publications in reverse chronological order. While this seems like quite a common task to me, I couldn’t find any BibTeX style that will do this trick. There is however the plainyr.bst style which is similar to the standard plain.bst BibTeX style, [...]
It’s been a couple of weeks since I’ve finished reading the book “Cosmic Jackpot” by Paul Davies (ISBN: 978-0618592265) and I’m still impressed by this wonderful book. Paul Davies is physicist and cosmologist and has written a number of popular science books on cosmology. In “The Cosmic Jackpot” Davies discusses one of the fundamental questions [...]