Archive for June, 2007
Java – Still learning to walk (or perhaps crawl)
Java is not only a language it is a whole eco system of new things to learn. The amount of time I have actually spent with the language is fairly small compared with the time I have spent learning about parts of the eco system. Things like what are manifest files, what is this WebStart thing or more to the core of things what is a jar file. Ant, JUnit are other things I have been learning about. Read the rest of this entry »
Selecting a Random Point in a Triangle
Given a triangle defined by the 3 points a, b, c and given the vectors AB,AC going from point a to points b and c respectively as shown in the diagram below. Read the rest of this entry »
Just fiddling around with stuff really.
This is going to be a proper blog entry! I will skip around various topics and not actually provide any real information. Read the rest of this entry »
Maths in wordpress
I have been wanting to get math symbols into blog entries in an easy way for quite a while, preferably using Latex approach to things. MathML is just horrible to work with when it comes to editing.
In the past I have looked around and not got very far, the solutions I found seemed to require Latex to be installed on the server, something I cannot do. Well this time I found this. It calls a separate server to generate a gif representation of the Latex command and then caches it on my own server. So now I can put maths into entries without having to think about it, well except my latex skills are slightly rusty to say the least.
Here comes one from the past…
