September 2010
7 posts
Vim vs. Textmate →
An extensive description of why/how to switch from Textmate to Vim as your principal editor. A good read, which I warmly recommend…
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Building Edito - Part 3
We’ve just seen in the previous post Building Edito - Part 2 that we are following a 5-gated process to developing our app. By the way, the name popped-out later in the process, at the early stages I just called it iMarkdown. With most of the stages 1 & 2 well engaged, the big remaining task to get into stage 3 is to draw a list of features. Because Objective-C is object oriented, this...
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Building Edito - Part 2
We’ve just been through my initial thoughts about this app. A bit more planning is needed before we get into “real” business, ie. engineering stuff. I find it not only necessary, but really useful, to follow a process, even though I’m the only person concerned with this “project”. What I’m using to keep track of the progress is a 5-gated process, which...
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Building Edito - Part 1
So, we’re waiting for the release of Edito, our Markdown viewer/processor/integrator for iPad. We’ve had quite a large number of hits on the webpage we’ve put up, as well as a string of emails, so we’re hoping it will be released soon by Apple on the AppStore. I’m thinking about putting up a series of posts to tell you — the user — how Edito was developed,...
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Use Preview!!!
One of the killer features of os X is a very smart piece of software that comes bundled with the system: Preview.
You surely have seen it at work, as it opens your PDF documents as well as your pictures on the Mac. My guess is you will be amazed at somepoint by the number of formats it supports… Now, there are a string of features that most of us won’t think of using, particularly if...
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Essential tools: Plotting data on the Mac
Here is one of the most basic tools one should use… If you are coming from the Win environment, you are probably confused about the plot engine you want to get. Granted, there are a large number available in Windows, eg. Origin, SigmaPlot to name only a few popular ones. A few years ago, people tend to use the (very neat) Kaleidagraph, which is no longer available.
There are, however, many...
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Essentials: text editing
This is a long post, actually I’m using a new piece of software we just completed to type it, so it’s a good test.
Text vs. Word
One of the things hat hurt the most my feelings is exchanging some text documents in word format with colleagues. Every time such a thing happens, I just feel like shouting: you are Scientists dammit! So, without being geeky, one should simply use a...
