A long time ago computers started to be able to store “things” in memory. Even though there’s no doubt that today we mostly store “files” in computers, that doesn’t mean that’s the only thing we can store. There’s a real world analogy from some terms we use to store data in our computers. Quoting from [...]

I had this error for a very long time when trying to use extensions in Inkscape 0.46 for Mac OS X: “The fantastic lxml wrapper for libxml2 is required by inkex.py and therefore this extension” After many hours of trying to find a solution I got it to work. This is what I did: sudo [...]

When using ProjectPier in a different language than English you may come to see a bug when browsing through the dashboard. Some translations include html code in their strings (because of a migration from activeCollab?). ProjectPier escapes this strings and the code leaks to the user interface. For example there is this Spanish translation: ‘log [...]

On my previous post I looked at how some frameworks handle the multimodule approach to separate javascript code. Since then I’ve been playing with different ways of loading scripts online vs. doing it offline. After doing some research on the subject I found this website where they show three different approaches to load javascript files. [...]

When I’m developing small or medium or large javascript projects I end up with the same problem all the time: code grows and it starts getting a mess if you don’t do something about it. The only way out is separating your code into different modules which leads to the only conclusion of separating it [...]

I’m starting a new project. The problem I need to address is now glass cutting and how to optimize a set of cuts to satisfy an order of cut glass sheets. The algorithm I used is the following: Get the largest piece of material from the order. Get the smallest piece of material from the [...]