Archive for the ‘Tools’ Category
Setting up your very own Subversion repository
Programming, Tools
Posted: October 3rd, 2007
Recently, a network outage at the office kept me from accessing my remote Subversion repository, which in turn prevented me from finishing a relatively small project in the deadline I had set for it. This led me to consider the problems with depending on connectivity to the outside world, specially in a university campus where […]
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Logarithmic Binning
Gawk, Numerical Methods, Tools
Posted: June 19th, 2007
An important problem when dealing with experimental data, whether this data originated in a “real” experiment in a numerical one, is to reduce the ammount of stochastic noise. This is specially important when trying to determine the distribution P(x) of a given quantity quantity x. A common approach is to apply some form of logarithmic […]
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Visits, PageViews and Links
Programming, Python, Tools, analytics
Posted: June 13th, 2007
“How many people are visiting my site” and “how many people are linking to it”, are possibly the two most basic questions webmasters (and bloggers in particular) are interested in answering. The first defines the audience you are able to reach and the second defines how relevant your content is to other people, and has […]
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Understanding webserver logs
Programming, Python, Tools, analytics
Posted: June 4th, 2007
With the ever growing preponderance of the online world over “First Life”, specially in the realm of business, the problem of quantifying growth and identifying trends in the way an online service is used becomes also increasingly important. This post is the first of a (probably) long series of post about the techniques and principles […]
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wp-Octave, bringing the power of octave’s plotting capabilities to WordPress
Tools, wordpress
Posted: May 21st, 2007
Octave is powerful opensource clone of Mathworks Matlab which bring to the FOSS community most of the strengths of this power full tool. wp-Octave is a simple wordpress plugin that allows anyone with a basic knowledge of the matlab syntax to produce high quality plots of small (or not so small) sets of data and […]
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Professional looking equations by rendering LaTeX online
Tools
Posted: April 20th, 2007
Typesetting mathematical expressions in a digital document has always been tricky, specially, when dealing with the complex equations that commonly arise in the different domains of research in Physics and Math. Over the years several approaches were developed, and while some emphasized more the ease of use at the cost of power (like Microsoft’s Equation […]
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