Video Channels for Numbers, Periodic Tables, Deep Sky and all that is Molecular
[Go direct to Uni of Nottingham post] As well as this blog, I also contribute to a blog at The University of Nottingham, Malaysia Campus. Some of the posts I write for the University of Nottingham blog might also be of interest to a wider audience, so I decided to post a link to selective […]
Flying a drone over the University of Nottingham
[Go direct to Uni of Nottingham post] As well as this blog, I also contribute to a blog at The University of Nottingham, Malaysia Campus. Some of the posts I write for the University of Nottingham blog might also be of interest to a wider audience, so I decided to post a link to selective […]
Data Visualisation Competition
[Go direct to Uni of Nottingham post] As well as this blog, I also contribute to a blog at The University of Nottingham, Malaysia Campus. Some of the posts I write for the University of Nottingham blog might also be of interest to a wider audience, so I decided to post a link to selective […]
Wildcards and Carriage Returns in Word
I’m not quite sure why but I often find myself doing various editing in Word. Not just just normal editing but more like parsing text trying to get it ready for import into a database or a spreadsheet. This often involves editing at a level that, I suspect, many users are not familiar with. Operations […]
Bibtex: Display papers by a given author
For a while I have been blogging on various bibtex related topics. My interest in parsing bibtex sfiles started a long when I was looking for a way to automatically generate my publications web page, rather than having to update the raw HTML every time I published a new paper. There are a few free […]
Software Support
For various reasons I have recently bought three pieces of software. These are the only pieces of software I have bought in recent times, so what I am about to say is not just taking a few samples from a larger population, but based on the last three pieces of software that I have bought. […]
Endnote: Thumbs up to Technical Support
I have recently been posting about bibtex and some of the problems I was having, and some of the solutions I had come up with. As the research project I have in mind develops, I do envisage more problems on the horizon so I thought I might look around for something a little more sustainable. […]
PATAT 2012: Practioners Welcome
The PATAT (Practice and Theory of Automated Timetabling) conference officially started today, although there was a social event yesterday. One of the innovative aspects of PATAT, which is reflected in the conference title, is that it attracts both academics and practitioners. The 2012 conference (the ninth in the conference series) has probably attracted more practitioners […]
New Blog Theme
I am impressed with WordPress. It tends to do what it says on the tin and the range of plugins and themes you can get enable you to add almost any sort of functionality. Yesterday I decided to bite the bullet and install another theme. Actually, installing a theme is very easy. It really is […]
PATAT 2012 Conference
I am just about to head off to the PATAT 2012 conference. This year it is in Oslo which would normally be a short hop from the UK but when you live in Malaysia it is a 15 hour flight! This is the 9th PATAT (Practice and Theory of Automated Timetabling) conference in the series, […]