Once upon a time in the not so distant past at the beginning of October, I purchased a beautiful Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 tablet. My main reason was to go more paperless and to archive handwritten notes in electronic format. However, I did not want to do so by scanning in papers or by writing […]
Last Friday at Beer O’Clock, we saw some awesome visualization of data done by Andrew Caudwell, a colleague of mine. I talked to him for a bit later in the evening and learned that he did not only create Gource with which you can visualize activity on git for example, but alos Logstalgia. With Logstalgia […]
Having great tools to work with makes any activity more enjoyable. Recently, I discovered Geany, a text editor “with basic features of an integrated development environment” in my search for an editor that does syntax highlighting for reStructuredText documents. On Ubuntu Maverick, I had syntax highlighting for gedit, but that doesn’t work anymore under Ubuntu Precise, […]
My name is Kristina and I like writing documentation. That’s how I started my Pizza Thursday presentation at Catalyst today. And it’s true. With the right motivation and also good tools, it can be an enjoyable task. The tools I used for the Mahara user manual are: reStructured Text: text markup Shutter: Ubuntu screenshot software […]
Last Wednesday, May 9, 2012, was Global Accessibility Awareness Day. According to the website it is a community-driven effort whose goal is to dedicate one day to raising the profile of and introducing the topic of digital (web, software, mobile app/device etc.) accessibility and people with different disabilities to the broadest audience possible. I took […]