Geek

Embed .mov video into flash

Posted in Geek on September 27th, 2011 by seba – Be the first to comment

Recently, I helped my brother to embed .mov video on the website he is working on (house plan design). The goal was to give the user the possibility to control the scrolling of a video, giving the impression of manipulating a 3D object.

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Help files and shell scripting

Posted in Geek on June 3rd, 2011 by seba – Be the first to comment

When I started to use Linux at the beginning of my thesis, I was very excited by the command line. It looks so strange all this blabla written by the computer, how a human could possibly interact with that? I wanted to break this mystery, I wanted to learn how to speak with computers.

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Create beautiful figures for LaTeX with Xfig

Posted in Geek on May 13th, 2011 by seba – 2 Comments

Xfig is a powerful vector graphics editor which enables to create graphics with LaTeX formula. Since a picture is worth a thousand words, I first give an example.

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Tricks Emacs

Posted in Geek on April 3rd, 2010 by seba – 1 Comment

In this post, I would like to share some of the tricks I find particularly useful in Emacs. To describe the commands, I use the standard convention in Emacs: C means Control and M means Alt.

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Customizing Emacs

Posted in Geek on February 19th, 2010 by seba – Be the first to comment

What I do like in Emacs is that it is so easy to customize it. And once you do so, you really have the felling that you have your own Emacs.

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Overview

Posted in Geek on February 8th, 2010 by seba – Be the first to comment

I just want to summarize all the free softwares that I’m using on a single page. You can click on the different logos to find what software is represented.

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Auctex

Posted in Geek on January 27th, 2010 by seba – Be the first to comment

It was a time where I was struggling using windows to edit my LaTeX file. During this period, I used the combination Miktex/TexnicCenter which worked pretty well I must say.

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