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A wikipedia of algorithms

Here’s something I’ve wanted to see for some time, but probably don’t have time to work on myself. It would be nice if there was a wikipedia-like web site for code and algorithms. Just the common ones to start with, but perhaps more specialised ones over time. Of course the algorithms should be available in […]

Posted 07 December 2009 † johan § Software development ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , ,

Bibliography tools (2) – Mendeley

Following a comment on my previous foray into bibliography management systems, I had a look at the product known as Mendeley. In order to evaluate Mendeley, let’s ask ourselves what we want from a bibliography management system in the modern research environment. At a bare minimum, we want an easy way to catalogue and search […]

Posted 13 September 2009 † johan § Uncategorized ‡ Comments (3) ° Also tagged: , ,

Iran, Twitter and information control

We’ve now had just over a decade of truly mainstream access to and use of the internet. I think I personally took my first stumbling steps on the web around 1995-1996. At the time, it was a limited phenomenon, rife with poor design. It was hard to see what was eventually going to come out […]

Posted 26 June 2009 † johan § Uncategorized ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , ,