During these months, I didn’t publish too many new entries. I was so busy with the exams’ season. But I did some coding and learn a whole of new amazing technologies.
- In first place, I’ve just become a new LaTeX user. Word 2007 is good, but LaTeX is awesome. LaTeX is like a “programming language” for documents (read: markup language). It is not too hard to learn and it is easy to achieve great results in a short time.At first glance, it may look like too difficult. We are used to WYSIWYG environments, so first time with LaTeX can be shocking and frustrating. But if you read a good notes like these Not-so-short introduction to LaTeX2e and Getting Started with Latex, you’ll have a nice beginning in the TeX world!However, LaTeX is not the panacea. It is not easy to make custom “classes” (of documents), so be careful when you decide to use it for your documents. But most of what I used to do (slides, papers, tech-books,…) with *Office suites, can be accomplished with LaTeX. There are lots of packages around and probably one of them will suit your needs.
Further info:
Wikipedia entry for LaTeX.
CTAN: Comprehensive TeX Archive Network. - ClipboardLan uploaded. After a few weeks, I uploaded it at CodePlex. In the next weeks, I’ll write a few post about how can you set up a ClipboardLan system. Check http://www.codeplex.com/clipboardlan for downloads.
- Reading Code Complete. Probably, the best ever book written about software construction. Since I started reading it, my code got better. I also found that some of the thoughts I had were real. For instance: when CC talks about procedures design. I’ll write a review about this when I’ll finish it.
Besides, I also get interested about pure functional programming, sensors & measurement tools, etc.
