Scientific Workplace και Ελληνικά

Το Scientific workplace είναι ένα πολύ καλό εμπορικό front-end για το Latex.
Θα περιγράψουμε ένα τρόπο να γράψουμε ελληνικά με το Scientific Workplace που βασίζεται στο omega του Γιάννη Χαραλάμπους.

Αποσυμπιέζουμε το rar αρχείο στο C:\ με την προυπόθεση ότι η εγκατάσταση του SWP είναι στο C:\SWP55\ Το rar αυτό αρχείο περιέχει ορισμούς για ελληνικά fonts.
Αλλάζουμε τα [...]

Remote Procedure Calls in GWT

From google
GWT RPC makes it easy for the client and server to pass Java objects back and forth over HTTP.
When used properly, RPCs give you the opportunity to move all of your UI logic to the client, resulting in greatly improved performance, reduced bandwidth, reduced web server load, and a pleasantly fluid [...]

Open-source scripting environment Komodo Edit 4.3

 http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080316-hands-on-open-source-scripting-environment-komodo-edit-4-3.html
http://www.activestate.com/Products/komodo_ide/komodo_edit.mhtml
The free and open source editor,  supports

Browser-side technologies: CSS, HTML, JavaScript and XML
Server-side languages: Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby and Tcl
Web template languages: RHTML, Template-Toolkit, HTML-Smarty and Django

The OpenKomodo project has the potential to become for scripting what Eclipse is for Java.

From BFS to ZFS: past, present, and future of file systems

http://arstechnica.com/articles/paedia/past-present-future-file-systems.ars
A tongue-in-cheek historical review of most file systems, that can double as a quick history of operating systems. I found it hillarious! The ZFS is the future!

Prism for the Desktop

Mozilla Labs last week released a new version of Prism, a single-site browser system that brings web applications to the desktop. The latest version is designed to work as a Firefox extension rather than as a separate XUL application.
http://labs.mozilla.com/2008/03/major-update-to-prism-first-prototype-of-browser-integration/
http://wiki.mozilla.org/Prism/Scripting
Roughly, you can run server side code offline. The interesting part is the lightweight browser. It does [...]

Phun with physics

http://www.phun.at/
Quoting:
Phun is a Master of Science Thesis by Computing Science student Emil Ernerfeldt for supervisor Kenneth Bodin at VRLab, Umeå University.
Phun is meant to be a playground where people can be creative. It can also be used as an educational tool to learn about physics concepts such as restitution and friction.
The some of the videos [...]

No Time to Think

Where is the space and time in which we get quiet enough to think in deeper ways? Which are the tools to enable us do that?
Very interesting/good talk, extremely interesting subject, nothing really new. Did not like the environment metaphor.
Just for demystification’s sake, Bush was on the committee advising Truman to use the atomic bomb [...]

Sync your Google Calendar with your Microsoft Outlook

http://blogs.zdnet.com/Google/?p=959
A standalone application that periodically syncs Outlook and Google Calendar.
Several options are missing such as syncing multiple calendars. I would prefer it to be an outlook plugin.
But I assume its a good start.

Vortex: An offline abstraction on top of Google Gears

from ajaxian.com

Google just released Google Gears for pocket pcs

Off-line web applications are a big deal for many companies/projects such as Adobe/AIR, Mozilla/Prism, Google/Google Gears and possibly Microsoft/Silverlight.
From gearsblog.blogspot.com:
Gears for mobile devices is initially available for Internet Explorer on Windows Mobile 5 and 6.
An interesting point is that they “plan to keep the Gears API consistent across all platforms”.
So Steve Jobs new something and [...]