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I am migrating this blog to a new location. In the new blog, I will leave Wordpress and I will start to use Jekyll, combined with Git and Emacs org-mode.
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The International Journal of Social and Organizational Dynamics in IT (IJSODIT) has just been created. It provides an international forum for practitioners and researchers from social sciences, along with information systems professional practitioners to contribute and share developed, useful, and innovative research regarding the impact and future of IT in the workplace. Covering all aspects [...]
Last year, when I submitted my tax declaration, I felt like going to live to the woods so I could avoid being ripped off by the government. It turns out that the idea is not new, and already two hundred years ago, Henry Thoreau though of it. He wrote his experiences in a book entitled [...]
A couple of weeks ago, I discovered a post in Abram Hindle’s blog about editing techniques, and reading aloud to edit research papers. He includes some scripts and configuration stuff for Emacs. I have adapted his scripts to suit my system. Here it is what I have added to ~/.emacs
(defun tex-speak ()
(interactive)
[...]
I have just released the 0.2 version of x30bright, an utility to set the brightness in Samsung X360 laptops. Brightness can now be indicated using percentages rather than raw values, and I have added a couple of more commands to get the current brightness and set the brightness, as well as increasing and decreasing it. [...]
My personal website is done using Emacs org-mode as a sort of wiki syntax. I always liked the idea of having my web written in a wiki, but I don’t like the usual wikis, with Edit buttons, and a lot of stuff that reveals that your web is actually a wiki.
My first attempt included writing [...]
In the previous post, I talked about how Python and Prolog are closer than one might think at a first glance. They are so close, that even both programming languages can be used from the same program.
Some days ago, I found Pyrolog, the Prolog interpreter that comes with the PyPy distribution. It is a Prolog [...]
During the last four or five years I have programmed almost exclusively in Python, a well known object-oriented programming language, very popular in the free / open source software community. In the last months, I have had to program in Prolog, a logic programming language, because of the research topics I am currently working on.
At [...]
With the last change of job, I also had to change my laptop, which is now a Samsung X360. Overall, it works fine with ArchLinux, however I can not set the backlight brightness using ACPI. It can be set using xrandr though. So I have just released x360bright, a command line utility to set the [...]