As a preliminary exercise to jog my memory, here is the obligatory “Hello, world!” program in a variety of languages. On the one hand, the programs do nothing except output a string, and so don’t illustrate very much about the respective languages. On the other hand, the simplicity of the task does illustrate the difference between languages that allow you to begin coding right away versus those that require a considerable amount of setting up (importing libraries, declaring classes, etc.) before you even have a functioning program… » [Expand post] [Permalink]
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For my Ph.D. research, I had set up the Wikindx bibliography management system for use on my laptop to keep track of the papers that I had read or come across. Furthermore, I use it to store local copies of frequently accessed papers by attaching them as PDF files.
Because I’m using Jarnal to annotate these papers, I wanted to integrate the ability to launch Jarnal into Wikindx itself, and also to store the annotations in Wikindx along with the attached documents.
I wrote the Annotate With Jarnal plug-in module for Wikindx initially for my private use, so it’s not very polished. But it gets the job done… » [Expand post] [Permalink]
Update (Sept. 29, 2009): I got in touch with Kevin Lindsey, the author of the script discussed below for converting DigiMemo DHW files to SVG format. He’s put his code on github, and written a new blog post about it.
For taking notes physically on paper, I use an ACECAD DigiMemo L2 digital notepad (whom I have named Little Wooden Boy).
Because I use Linux primarily, I don’t use the Windows-based software provided by ACECAD. Instead, I use Jarnal, an open source note-taking application written in Java.
This poses a minor problem, as the DigiMemo products store their output in a proprietary ACECAD format called DHW… » [Expand post] [Permalink]