Google Apps Script: sending your files as PDF
Once again a post that is mostly meant as a memo to myself. The last month I’ve been exploring Google Apps Script as a tool to automate the administration in our fencing club. One of the tasks that needs to be done, is send each member a form at the beginning of each year in … Continue reading
39th Flanders International Film Festival
It’s october. That means that once again it’s time for the film festival here in Ghent. This is the selection for this year: Wednesday 10 October Cesare Deve Morire (Caesar Must Die) The performance of Shakespeare’s “Julius Caesar” comes to an end and the performers are rewarded with rapturous applause. The lights go out; the … Continue reading
Migrating from svn to git
Recently I started looking around at GitHub and reading some tutorials on git. I decided to migrate some of my work related repositories from svn to git. This is the story of how that went. Basically this is explained on GitHub, but they leave out some details which might be needed for first-timers like me. … Continue reading
TikZ folding: The truncated cuboctahedron
This is the next post in a recent series of posts I’ve been writing about the TikZ folding library. This series finds it origin in a post about an extension to the TikZ folding library, which I wrote about three years ago. This post was brought back to my attention recently, and this has motivated … Continue reading
TikZ folding: Three more Archimedean solids
As I explained in a previous post, my interest in the TikZ folding library was recently rekindled, three years after I first added the remaining Platonic solids to that library. I’ve been busy added the remaining Archimedean solids. In that previous post I explained the preparatory work I had done for the remaining Archimedean solids. … Continue reading
TikZ folding: Preparing for the archimedean solids
Some years ago I played around with the folding library of TikZ. I extended it a bit to include all platonic solids and also added two Archimedean solids. I wrote a blog article about this, which can be found here. In that article I promised to finish the remaining Archimedean solids. I didn’t let it … Continue reading
Transition to Oneiric Ocelot
Last week I finally upgraded to Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot. A bit later than usual, but due to the film festival I usually only had an half hour the time before I had to go some time, but last Sunday I started the upgrade. At first it looked as if everything had gone perfect, but … Continue reading
Bulk updating TikZ pictures
I’m a strong ‘believer’ of PGF/TikZ as you might have noticed in my post about the folding library. For my PhD thesis I have dozens of TikZ pictures in separate files which I give a .tikz extension. This has proven to be a useful and practical way for me to reuse images and update them … Continue reading
38th Flanders International Film Festival
And yes, it’s once again that time of the year: the international film festival in Ghent. This year I found the time for 11 films and as usual I’ll give you the list of those films. Tuesday 11 october The magic trip Alex Gibney and Alison Ellwood’s “Magic Trip” is a freewheeling portrait of Ken … Continue reading
Gent Jazz bis
Last Friday and Saturday it was time for the second and third visit to Gent Jazz. As is usual with Gent Jazz the second week features less ‘real jazz’ and more poppy artists. As the announcer cleverly noticed all artists on Friday started with the letter A. First up was Agnes Obel. I have to … Continue reading
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