rsync -avc
I am in love with the rsync command-line tool. It’s a careful tool, a brilliant implementation, and well-thought command-line interface that surpasses cp, scp, and many others.Weiterlesen
View ArticlePHP a trustable language?
I came accross Why PHP should never be taught which is hilarious! I always had a small mistrust of PHP as being a too easy language but this post is a perfect illustration of how things can go wrong if...
View ArticleMUI(Mathematical User Interface) For Potential and Vital Consumers
I have been desperate for quite some time for my pupils to have a simple MUI(Mathematical User Interface) to be able to type Mathematics into Active Maths and into Web Pages, easily,...
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Academic confusion about notations
This is the story of a confusion which grew from each other’s copying a “nice example”: it’s about what is the normal notation for the binomial coefficients in Russian and French.It starts as a paper...
View ArticleSnow Leopard Compatibility and Performance?
Are there any known issues or welcome surprises concerning the compatibility and performance of ActiveMath under Snow Leopard Client and Server?
View ArticleGeneralized Metadata Inheritance now running in ActiveMath
A nifty feature has just emerged on daily activemath builds and jEditOQMath: advanced metadata inheritance. Basically, it allows an author to avoid most of the repetition of metadata by simply putting...
View Articledrop-shadow with convert
I’ve been musing with ImageMagick and found a little snippet to produce drop shadows on the command-line with this amazing open-source library.Given my file input.png I can obtain a version with drop...
View ArticleOpen-content topographic maps, something real is here
The need is extreeeeemely common: you want a map of some region to be included in the next flyer, in your web page, in your learning material. The map should be of good quality, be realistic, and...
View ArticlejEditOQMath update: collections metadata
new StaticBookMaker makes the collection-info, e.g. the list of filescontent-collections now have a collection-metadata (which is inherited) by defaultnewly created content-collections now have a...
View ArticleActiveMath-SVN update: collection metadata, author-menus, ...
I’ve just brought the trunk of ActiveMath, as can be seen on devdemo, on the ActiveMath-SVN-stable. This brings a large amount of fixes and features:polished MBase reload, most of the issues that were...
View Articleroots and polishes
Revision 11 is posted on ActiveMath-SVN.It now displays roots in HTML (but fails at nesting of roots). It also attempts at displaying the port number in amStartup on unixes. Finally, the notation...
View ArticlejEditOQMath video
An introduction video of jEditOQMath used to author ActiveMath content can be seen here:http://www.activemath.org/projects/jEditOQMath/jEditOQMath-overview-web.mov(379 Mb, MOV file, plays in Quicktime...
View Articlesomewhat crazy temperature
I observed the following fancy bit on a wolfram alpha’s answer:Current temperature in Lyon: -6 x 10-6°C (degrees Celsius)Tastes like monstruously freezing ;-).See picture.
View ArticleCopy to Clipboard - ambush and abuse by javascript
A fascinating discussion has been started by Tim Berners-Lee on the TAG mailing list, here’s the pointer to the archive: http://www.w3.org/mid/AFFAB130-B693-4AC9-91E6-B6834E57B3F5@w3.orgit is based on...
View ArticleActiveMath-svn revision 36: towards 1.1
Quite a few polishes in: - Includes input-editor enhancements; Drag-and-drop of formulæ now works again. - Dutch and French internationalization polishes - Groups should be mapped from Moodle...
View ArticleCopy and paste with MathJax... it shouldn't be still source!
I just met Copy and Paste Math|MathJax which is very interesting but really:it shouldn’t stay so!Copy-and-paste MathML should happen as soon as you invoke the copy command after having selected (part...
View ArticleActiveMath-SVN rev 48
This release approaches the math-bridge service release.It can be previewed on http://service.math-bridge.org/.Among others, changes include:like/dislike buttonssurveys for math-bridge evaluationstutor...
View ArticlejEditOQMath release 2010-09-17: new QMath, and a few zappers
The latest jEditOQMath is uploaded to the developer preview and the download area.It includes a brand new QMath which is also compiled for less platform: no ppc anymore (please help if you have one at...
View ArticlejEditOQMath release 2010-09-22: add a language more luxury
This release is a stabilization of the previous big move.but first a cherry on the cake: Add-a-language now uses the services of automatic translations (which does mess up things a bit) and also avoids...
View ArticleMoving to iWeb
I am moving away from http://eds.activemath.org/ which Sergey will be monitoring as well.My new blog: recycledM is going to be more spontaneous and more personal maybe.I’ll keep blogging here with...
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