Mendeley: La manera más rápida de organizar tu bibliografía
publicado: 2010-10-30
De las aplicaciones que he encontrado para mantener bibliografías al día – y ha muchas – nunca antes encontré algo tan fácil, y ademas grátis, como Mendeley.
Mendeley: The fastest way to organize that PDF article collection
publicado: 2010-10-30
I’ve been through a number of bibliography applications over the years. But never something as free and easy to use as Mendeley. In principle allows you to pick up the folder containing all your pdf references and simply drag and drop them to the local mendeley application. It does a good job in interpreting the documents and figuring out the bibliographical information. And then it connects the whole thing to your online profile, so that your synchronized reference library goes with you anywhere.</p>
R en análisis de datos en ecología
publicado: 2010-10-30
Cuando yo estaba terminando de escribir mi tésis, en el 2000, fué cuando salío la primera versión (1.0.0) de R. Lo descubrí un par de años más tarde, cuando otra vez necesitaba análisis multivariable para mi trabajo.
Desde entonces no solo tomó R un vuelo espectacular al punto de que estudiantes de hoy ni se imaginan como era el mundo cuando se necesitaba una licencia institutional para SPSS o SAS para hacer los análisis de datos, y una fuerte consitución mental para sacar gráficos a un nivel publicable.
Cryptonomicon
publicado: 2010-10-23
p>It was almost spooky to turn the last page of Cryptonomicon, and then find a newspaper article, with clandestine video, of a stranded nuclear submarine in the headlines of the ITH. It only goes to show how realistic the setting of the novel is, even though the central theme is that of things hidden.</p>
Post-trip guide books of Princeton, Barcelona and Rome
publicado: 2010-10-12
For someone who did not like the Da Vinci Code at all because the plot seemed so stale and contrived, I just went overboard the past few days reading three similar thrillers in a row. And I have to admit: the winner is Dan Brown (by far).
Writing Effective Use Cases
publicado: 2010-06-13
On my way to visit our development team in India, I packed a couple of books on user requirement definition and UML modeling. Delivery in software is highly dependent on getting this part of the work done in such a way, that all stakeholders in the process understand what you are talking about. Each stakeholder has different interests, different needs for information, and putting it all together has to be translated to time and money (and if this is not done well, disaster awaits).
BBLily: Lilypond Syntax Colouring for BBEdit
publicado: 2010-06-06
For a long time I have been looking for Lilypond syntax colouring in BBedit (and its free companion TextWrangler). BBEdit is my long-time my favourite text-editor, but for years I found no way to get this done. Since version 8.5 however, BBEdit allows for “Codeless Language Modules”, and this – I found out – is manageable. It is still work in progress, I update version as I go here:
Update June 10: Version 0.2 is available here: Download Lilypond.plist
The Future of R-Project!
publicado: 2010-05-22
It has already been 10 years since I stumbled upon the R-Project while doing my PhD work for the University of Amsterdam. Back in those days, we worked either with SPSS and as botanical ecologists with CANOCO (by Cajo ter Braak) and R Package (developed by Philipe Casgrain and Pierre Legendre at the University of Montreal) . Soon after both commercial packages started to move towards an “upgrade” in their user interface. Essentially this meant that they moved from a job-based (scripted) environment to a full menu based graphical user interface.
Treasure Hunt – Inside the mind of the new consumer
publicado: 2010-05-02
This book is an enjoyable read and it offers what it promises: a window into that part of the mind of people where they make decisions about what to buy and why. Written in 2006, the message and the examples of consumers and companies still feel very up to date. The core message is that people will either Trade Up or Trade Down their buying patterns. Trading up means that they buy goods at premium price ranges because of the satisfaction of quality or brand recognition. Trading down is the reverse: ruthlessly looking for the lowest price – quality level that is acceptable to them. Everything is is “dead in the middle”.