everything is an experiment
In this previous post, I had actually made use of a small plug-in I had written for WordPress, which creates a macro for pulling bibliographical information from Wikindx, which I use to manage my bibliography.
The plug-in is rather simple, but since a web search turned up nothing similar (which is kind of surprising), and someone might find it useful, I thought I’d post it here… » [Expand post] [Permalink]
There’s really no special trick to using jsMath with WordPress, bbPress, or Wikindx — just follow the installation instructions.
Essentially, you just need to add the following code in the header of your web site (where “path.to” should be replaced with the URL to your installation of jsMath):
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://path.to/jsMath/easy/load.js"></script>
For this web site, the above line was added to the headers of each of the template files of the component software packages.
One minor trick to getting jsMath to work with Wikindx is that all special characters have to be escaped properly\(\)… » [Expand post] [Permalink]
There are already plenty of open notebook and collaborative science initiatives out there, so why roll my own website?
To begin with, I didn’t find any ready-made projects which exactly suited my needs. The most impressive, and the one which came the closest to what I was looking for, is OpenWetWare, but its focus is on biology and biological engineering. Chemists have also gotten into the act with UsefulChem, which is hosted on wikispaces.
I did not locate any project of a similar scope or scale for physics or, perhaps ironically, computer science… » [Expand post] [Permalink]
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