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I moved from USA to Canada with my iPad (among other things). I have a bunch of iPad apps and I keep buying new ones. Not any more. Since I updated my banking details,my iTunes account stopped working. I cannot pay for apps with my USA iTunes account,since the address for the Credit . . . →Read More:Apple’s Catch-22 of moving countries This article is for a niche audience even smaller than my usual readers. There are not that many Lotus Notes developers;even smaller is a number of Lotus Notes coders who have bulk integration/migration needs. But some use cases do exist. I have started (and probably finished) a small GitHub project that demonstrates how to . . . →Read More:Bulk processing Lotus Notes database Google has just announced the release of BidiChecker –an open source tool to automatically test Arabic web pages for issues related to bidirectional support. This is a great news,as bidirectional support is always a huge problem and requires both deep Arabic language understanding and deep technical HTML/CSS understanding,preferably at the same time. . . . →Read More:Injecting BidiChecker to test Arabic web pages Image via Wikipedia For my other project,I needed to process some Arabic text that was in HTML file derived from MSWord document. Everything was going reasonably well,except my regular expressions were not picking section name/numbers sequences in all of the cases,which was causing a problem with the 6-language alignment algorithm. Normally, . . . →Read More:Arabic numerals’non-WYSIWYG I like ANTLR! It is a specialized tool that can really be applied to many difficult tasks when regular expressions get all Dust Puppy like. And I have used it in the past with great success. But,every time I put this particular tool aside,I know that picking it back up will be like . . . →Read More:Making up with ANTLR Homegrown visualization is not the only way to quickly navigate CiteULike references. There are other tools that display bibliographies in interesting ways. One of such tools is Exhibit,one of graduates from SIMILE project. It allows to do a very interactive webpage driven by just HTML+Javascript,with no server-side component required. I really like SIMILE’s . . . →Read More:CiteULike Exhibit visualization I am collecting my reading and reference material in CiteULike. I like the service because it can capture details from multiple sources. It also allows to discover what was collected by other interesting people through tags,people and bookmarks graph navigation. Nice as CiteULike is,it is fairly difficult to get an overall picture of . . . →Read More:Visualizing CiteULike collections I am visiting my parents and connect to their network via wireless router. My laptop,which is (still!) running Vista kept dropping wireless connection every couple of minutes and reconnecting again. Interestingly,the other computers connected to the same router had no problems. I could not figure out where to even start troubleshooting this issue, . . . →Read More:Vista repeatedly dropping wireless connection –solution | ||||
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