The tool “ots” simply is an open source tool for summarizing texts content. You can install it on your Linux box with: “apt-get install libots0 libots-dev” http://libots.sourceforge.net – Here you will also find the academic publications around that topic. Example usage: cat myarticle.txt | ots –ratio 5 This command would summarize the article, giving the [...]
Archive for May, 2008
KDiff3 is a great tool to do all sorts of textbased diffs. I use it regularly to resolve merge-conflicts in subversion. It can of course also be used to manage 3-way-diffs. Just mark 2-3 files in your file-explorer, right-click and choose ‘KDiff3 / Compare’ and you get a nice screen like this one: http://kdiff3.sourceforge.net
Since I am doing more and more stuff on the commandline, I noticed that sometimes I just wait for some task to finish to do a next step in a sequence to accomplish a certain goal. What if a running task would take an estimated 3-8 hours and it is Friday afternoon? In this case [...]
Phun is a very addictive physics simulator I came accross. Watch the videos on YouTube, install it on your Mac and try it yourself. Have Phun! http://www.phun.at http://phun.cs.umu.se/wiki/Phun Videos on YouTube showing, what you can do: http://www.youtube.com/group/phun
Inspired by an article at InfoQ (http://www.infoq.com/articles/better-best-practices) I discovered an interesting model, which explores the nature of learning in an interesting way: The Dreyfus Model for Skills Acquisition. In essence it describes how people acquire skills over time, what supports them best in their progress and how they behave with their growing knowledge. Five levels [...]
In search of an example how to implement a top-level exception handler in PHP I came across this nice site containing lots of well explained tutorials and articles: http://www.phpro.org
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