Lessons learned and musing about software tools, software testing, computational experiments, optimization, operations research, and other interesting stuff that I run across...
Testing ScribeFire
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I'm going to try using ScribeFire to generate these posts. This seems highly recommended. Also, I can work with it offline, which is a definite plus for me!
Technical writing is an integral part of my research in computer science and operations research. I have a long history using LaTeX, which is very well suited for writing technical articles that contain mathematical equations as well as code snippets. Although LaTeX can readily generate postscript and PDF output files, I have been unimpressed with tools that generate HTML from LaTeX source. Thus, I was intrigued by AsciiDoc , which promises to generate PDF, HTML and eBook formats. AsciiDoc is used to provide online documentation for software projects, and authors can publish book through O'Rielly using this tool. Thus, this is a well-developed document generation tool. I have successfully prototyped a draft book, Getting Started with Coopr , and you can browse the subversion repository for this document here . Note that the Makefile file specifies build targets for PDF, HTML and eBook files. The advantage of AsciiDoc is that you can use a simple markup language to generate
This is a blog that I have been meaning to write for some time. I occasionally take a look at the download statistics for this blog, and recently I was prompted to do this by other bloggers who were reporting their end-of-year statistics (e.g. see Laura McLay’s review of the Punk Rock OR blog ). Unlike Laura, I do not have impressive download statistics to report about the many blogs I have written in 2011; frankly, I did not create many posts. However, an interesting pattern has emerged regarding this blog’s readership: there are a few key blog posts that are frequently downloaded. For example, my most frequently downloaded blog post is a survey of Python plugin software, which I wrote in 2009. I suspect that other bloggers have seen the same thing; they have a few posts that are very popular because people do web searches on that topic. However, it is worth stepping back and thinking about the implications of this when writing a blog. When I first started b
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