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, […]
KohaCon10 is finally coming closer and closer. We’ll be kicking off this free community conference on Monday, October 25, 2010. It is totally exciting because it is the first conference that I am on the organizing committee (though I stepped in late as I had only moved to Wellington in June) since the DGFF conference […]
Some weeks ago I decided to purchase Aperture 3 after a long time of non-decision due to bad reviews of Aperture crashing, eating photos and databases etc. Lucky for me, I had no problems importing my Aperture 2 database and photos and everything went smoothly. I updated to Aperture 3 not necessarily to be up-to-date […]
On Wednesday and Thursday, March 10-11, 2010, I witnessed my first software launch. After 8 years of development and already substantial use, TAO, an open source computer-based assessment (CBA) platform was officially launched. The development of this online assessment tool started as a partnership of the Research Unit EMACS of the University of Luxembourg and […]
It’s been some time since I wanted to write about my little computer helpers. Thus, without further ado I present (in alphabetical order): Caffeine During a seminar my colleague Bob Reuter and I gave, he switched on this little program to avoid having his Mac fall asleep. As I had 15 3-hour workshops during the past […]