http://plesslweb.ch musings of a computer engineering researcher Sat, 25 Jul 2009 16:48:51 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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](http://www.ruby-lang.org/en) programming language. Since Mac OS X 10.5 Apple ships the operating ... http://plesslweb.ch/2009/07/25/new-wkpdf-implementation-released/ Github has added an [issue tracker](http://github.com/blog/411-github-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 ... http://plesslweb.ch/2009/04/17/github-adds-issue-tracking-for-projects/ 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 ... http://plesslweb.ch/2009/01/30/bibtex-style-for-sorting-in-reverse-chronological-order/  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 ... http://plesslweb.ch/2008/02/24/paul-davies-the-cosmic-jackpot/ It's been a year since I have written an article, on the Mac software I consider as essential for my daily work. A lot of new software has been released in the last year and I have changed some of my workflows, thus it's time for an update. The following list ... http://plesslweb.ch/2008/02/16/essential-mac-software-2008/ Finally NVidia has released a [Mac OS X port of CUDA](http://news.developer.nvidia.com/2008/02/cuda-11---now-o.html). CUDA is a library that allows for using recent NVidia graphics card for general purpose computations. Until the advent of CUDA, using the massive parallelism of the GPU for general purpose computations required to disguise the computations as OpenGL ... http://plesslweb.ch/2008/02/15/nvidias-cuda-library-for-gpu-computing-available-for-mac-os-x/ As some of you will probably know, I'm developing a small open-source tool named wkpdf. wkpdf is a command-line application that renders a HTML webpage to PDF using Apple's WebKit framework. Unfortunately, a change in the WebKit version shipped with Leopard has broken wkpdf on Leopard. Leopard users of wkpdf ... http://plesslweb.ch/2007/12/12/added-leopard-compatibility-to-wkpdf/ [Google Analytics (GA)](http://www.google.com/analytics/) is a handy tool for generating access statistics for your website. One drawback of GA is that it does not automatically registers clicks to outgoing links on your website. But the information which links have been clicked can be very interesting, e.g., for determining whether the user ... http://plesslweb.ch/2007/10/22/automating-tracking-of-outgoing-links-with-google-analytics/ I would like to share a tip with you that is particularly handy for switchers, when migrating from Windows to the Mac. If you are using Microsoft Outlook Express on Windows, you will find out soon, that Outlook Express does not provide a convenient way to export all your emails ... http://plesslweb.ch/2007/07/03/painless-migration-of-emails-from-outlook-express-to-apples-mailapp/ I have just released version 0.1.0 of [wkpdf](http://wkpdf.plesslweb.ch), my command line HTML to PDF conversion application for Mac OS X. Since the [initial announcement](http://plesslweb.ch/2007/06/09/introducing-wkpdf-a-command-line-html-to-pdf-converter-for-mac-os-x/) the usability of the application has been improved quite a lot. wkpdf now allows for selecting the paper format and orientation for the PDF output. For example, ... http://plesslweb.ch/2007/06/22/wkpdf-010-released/