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LaTeX: More than Math

These first weeks of school have gone by so fast: 16 hours of course­work will def­i­nitely keep any­one busy. Nonethe­less, CSCE 221 “Data Struc­tures and Algo­rithms” and its co-​​​​curricular, CSCE 222 “Dis­crete Struc­tures for Com­put­ing”, have def­i­nitely proven to be the most inter­est­ing classes I have taken thus far: CSCE 222 is a “math” course, but …

January 28, 2011 – 12:55 pm | By Matthew | Posted in College, Software | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (0)

Mac OS X Hosting Unleashed

I cov­ered Mac OS X web host­ing before when I wrote about installing Medi­aWiki on Mac OS X, but in that tuto­r­ial, I used XAMPP, a pre­con­fig­ured Server Bun­dle, instead of the exist­ing Apache instal­la­tion that all Mac OS X instal­la­tions have by default. At the time, I was some­what unaware of all the soft­ware that comes with Mac OS X. As a cour­tesy to fel­low new­bie Mac-​​based devel­op­ers like myself, I have included a list of bun­dled software.

December 21, 2010 – 9:19 am | By Matthew | Posted in Software, Tips & Tricks | Tagged , , , , , | Comments (0)

UNIX or Not? Installing MediaWiki on Mac OS X

I’ve been tak­ing notes on my Mac­Book using a local Medi­aWiki instal­la­tion (there’s a pub­lic ver­sion at http://​notes​.kom​put​er​wiz​.net:8000). Here’s a list of the nec­es­sary pack­ages: Apache, MySQL, PHP, ImageMag­ick, LaTeX, Inkscape, Medi­aWiki, OCaml, Make, and G++ Note that I’m run­ning these pack­ages on Mac OS X. Also note that they are GNU Linux pack­ages. (If …

October 11, 2010 – 1:40 am | By Matthew | Posted in Computers, Software, Tips & Tricks | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments (1)

Safari 4 Released

I never thought I’d see the day that I would blog about an Apple prod­uct… I just took a good look at the newly released Safari 4, and I must say that it looks… impres­sive to say the least. Before I get into fur­ther details, let me first say that the Safari 4 inter­face looks strik­ingly …

July 12, 2009 – 1:13 am | By Matthew | Posted in Software | Tagged , , , | Comments (1)