Monday, June 25, 2007

Be careful when google-ing for LaTeX

I know LaTeX is cool, and I cannot imagine publishing my research with out it.
But from time to time, I am getting caught in a trap of non-personal enough and case insensitive search in Google.

Today I was trying to find how to insert a TM symbol in LaTeX (\texttrademark). A simple query "LaTeX trademark" occurred to be too simple ... (you can imagine what I mean, or check it yourself).

When will be the times where the search engine will actually know what I mean?!




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Saturday, June 23, 2007

How I love Tomcat (did I say love? I hate it)

This is not the first time that Tomcat team decided to make our life easier and change the way Tomcat 6 works (compared to T5.5)

A couple of notes from our (just finished) session on how to make JeromeDL working on T6.


  1. apart from small changes required here and there in JSP (like changing ${ (test)?one:two} -> ${ (test)?(one):(two)} ) - T6 seems to be much faster than T5.5


  2. T6 introduced new way (they say it is a features) of handling internationalization, but it breaks common sense way of how fmt:bundle worked. Now, you cannot do .getKeys(), or bundle.keys - as this new object, that says it is a ResourceBundle is somehow mapped in EL to something behaving like a Map. so bundle.keys - returns ???keys??? indicating that such a translation has not been found - stupid.

    Together with Adam we wrote a helper function in Tag Lib to make sure we get Enumeration from bundle - it was required by JavaScript internationalization style we have e.g. in SSCF


  3. T6 has problems with handling long URL that contains URLEncoded fragments. If you have %2F as a result of URL encoding a slash - it will fail to load the page, with error 400 -> wrong URL no Slash - again stupid. I will try to find some solution soon.



Please let me know if anyone has any idea how to fix point 3.


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Thursday, June 07, 2007

Hello word from MacBook Pro

OK, I have finally made it.
If you read this post - it means that I am now 100% MacSkruk [or at least this is how my Mac is called].
There were several reasons to switch; I cannot event try to rank them. But believe me - it was for the best :)