Wednesday, May 5, 2010
Sunday, May 2, 2010
The All New Compact Org Mode guide
Well, at a short 34 pages (PDF), it's definitely smaller than the 200 page manual. And it just goes to show, how much development has gone into org-mode keeping the same simplicity(well, you could argue this doc refutes that notion) but extending it do lots of other things like LaTeX publishing.
I got started on LaTeX with the The Not So Short Introduction to LATEX2ε (PDF) which convinced me to use LaTeX to prepare my reports, presentations and letters. And that's definitely longer than the 34 pages of this tutorial.
So, give it a try, it just might help you get started on org-mode.
I got started on LaTeX with the The Not So Short Introduction to LATEX2ε (PDF) which convinced me to use LaTeX to prepare my reports, presentations and letters. And that's definitely longer than the 34 pages of this tutorial.
So, give it a try, it just might help you get started on org-mode.
Tuesday, April 27, 2010
The LaTeX Beamer project has a new maintainer!
From the Beamer mailing list, Dr. Till Tantau has just announced that the Beamer package will be maintained by Vedran Miletić.
Vedran Miletić plans for Beamer are here.
The Beamer package is one of the best presentation classes for LaTeX. I'd urge you to give it a try, if you haven't. It's worth the effort to learn it.
Vedran Miletić plans for Beamer are here.
The Beamer package is one of the best presentation classes for LaTeX. I'd urge you to give it a try, if you haven't. It's worth the effort to learn it.
Thursday, April 22, 2010
Wednesday, April 21, 2010
Google buying ITA software?
So is this also going to be another Lisp success story? Apparently, Google is in talks to buy ITA software for about $1bn. ITA software has been one of the companies which use Lisp a lot and so this is a big deal for the Lisp supporters.
Saturday, April 17, 2010
Remembering the last edited location in a file
From the emacs newsgroup, one way to get to back to the last editing location in the file is described here in this thread. Pretty useful, if you jump between a lot of files and need to scroll down to the end every time or some such repeatable action.
Tuesday, April 6, 2010
April Emacs Pretest 23.1.95 available
Another Pretest versions of Emacs can be found here and here. Thanks to Sean who posted it on Emacs Windows mailing list.
Thursday, April 1, 2010
Using org-mode to send HTML mail
From the org-mode mailing list, here's a way to post HTML mail messages using org-mode. The link that works is this one. Apparently, one can still see the text part even if you set the Gnus reader to discourage HTML. And in it's present form, it works only with Gnus and not any other Emacs MUAs.
Presumably, one would use this feature only when required, as HTML is not something that is recommended as mail text as there is no guarantee that mail clients would be able to render it or render it the way you'd initially formatted the HTML.
Stick to plain text; Besides, if you're going all flashy in getting your point across, you've got a bigger problem than using HTML to say it.
Presumably, one would use this feature only when required, as HTML is not something that is recommended as mail text as there is no guarantee that mail clients would be able to render it or render it the way you'd initially formatted the HTML.
Stick to plain text; Besides, if you're going all flashy in getting your point across, you've got a bigger problem than using HTML to say it.
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
Google phone sales
This isn't surprising is it?
If you don't provide support and let the customers run around, it comes back to bite you.
While the competition, *cough*, that fruit company is pumping out better versions of its products and shipping a few million phones in a few days or weeks.
Having a great product is one thing, letting customers down is only going to make it difficult to get acceptance. For the sea of developers who got the phone free to develop applications to rival the App store, this is going to be a bit frustrating.
A dream phone, nice development platform, having it all knackered by the lack of customer service!
Though, I do wonder how much of it is cultural or customer behaviour issues. I'd rather feel, touch and play with the phone before I order online. And if I have to hunt for specific outlets to just see it and hold it in my hands, well, my enthusiasm soon flags.
It's not like I'm a nerd or something. :)
More importantly, this might be the only leverage carriers can exert influence on Google, I think. From advertising to store placement and sales training that's a long time line that Google can't afford but must do. Every ask and feature by the carriers will only delay the roll outs. With different vendors for different parts of the mobile phone business (manufacturer, carriers etc), it's not going to be easy.
This is not going to be like Amazon shipping something off. Every detail that the carriers and networks need, they'd have to adhere to or get around to putting it in. They'd have to do that, till the phone products have critical mass so that it is evident to the customer that the phone has a support infrastructure in its place from calling plans, software and hardware.
Lots of plodding to do. Lots.
And if they do that, other mobile companies will beat them at it; they have been at this far longer. The first mover advantage is gone; unless they come out with a better business model, they're stuck with the current one and they'd get clobbered.
Even with a great product.
If you don't provide support and let the customers run around, it comes back to bite you.
While the competition, *cough*, that fruit company is pumping out better versions of its products and shipping a few million phones in a few days or weeks.
Having a great product is one thing, letting customers down is only going to make it difficult to get acceptance. For the sea of developers who got the phone free to develop applications to rival the App store, this is going to be a bit frustrating.
A dream phone, nice development platform, having it all knackered by the lack of customer service!
Though, I do wonder how much of it is cultural or customer behaviour issues. I'd rather feel, touch and play with the phone before I order online. And if I have to hunt for specific outlets to just see it and hold it in my hands, well, my enthusiasm soon flags.
It's not like I'm a nerd or something. :)
More importantly, this might be the only leverage carriers can exert influence on Google, I think. From advertising to store placement and sales training that's a long time line that Google can't afford but must do. Every ask and feature by the carriers will only delay the roll outs. With different vendors for different parts of the mobile phone business (manufacturer, carriers etc), it's not going to be easy.
This is not going to be like Amazon shipping something off. Every detail that the carriers and networks need, they'd have to adhere to or get around to putting it in. They'd have to do that, till the phone products have critical mass so that it is evident to the customer that the phone has a support infrastructure in its place from calling plans, software and hardware.
Lots of plodding to do. Lots.
And if they do that, other mobile companies will beat them at it; they have been at this far longer. The first mover advantage is gone; unless they come out with a better business model, they're stuck with the current one and they'd get clobbered.
Even with a great product.
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