Arabic numerals’ non-WYSIWYG

By arafalov, on August 20th, 2010%

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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, I just examine the text . . . → Read More: Arabic numerals’ non-WYSIWYG

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Making up with ANTLR

By arafalov, on May 28th, 2009%

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 making up . . . → Read More: Making up with ANTLR

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CiteULike Exhibit visualization

By arafalov, on January 27th, 2009%

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 tools, even . . . → Read More: CiteULike Exhibit visualization

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Visualizing CiteULike collections

By arafalov, on January 25th, 2009%

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 one’s own . . . → Read More: Visualizing CiteULike collections

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Vista repeatedly dropping wireless connection – solution

By arafalov, on June 14th, 2008%

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, until I . . . → Read More: Vista repeatedly dropping wireless connection – solution

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