Creating Combined tikz/png Plots

In order to create truly high quality plots, you can have gnuplot write tikz files. Wheres the latest CVS development version of gnuplot have the tikz terminal included, I’m [...] Continue Reading…

Accessing GMail through Python

Over the last couple of years, I’ve made several attempts at efficiently interacting with Gmail through Python. There were a number of motivations:

Filtering mail: Putting emails into folder [...] Continue Reading…

Three little git scripts

I have three scripts that help me with my daily use of git: git-cat, git-vimdiff, git-graph [...] Continue Reading…

Installing a CVS version of Gnuplot in MacPorts

I wanted to have a bleeding edge version of gnuplot, mostly for the new TikZ terminal. Here’s what to do to install the CVS version of gnuplot in MacPorts [...] Continue Reading…

Annotating LaTeX Lists with Flowchart symbols

There’s a neat little trick of putting TikZ code in the place of list bullets in LaTeX. Together with TikZ’s overlay feature, I was able to make a small graphical flowchart out of of list items. [...] Continue Reading…

Command Line Interface for InsomniaX

For the brief period of time that InsomniaX did not work on Snow Leopard, I tried to work with the legacy (0.5) version, but it was a mess. @4lex [...] Continue Reading…

Adding Local-File fields to BibDesk created BibTeX File

I’ve written a small script that [...] adds a Local-File field to the BibTeX file with the relative path of the referenced file. [...] Continue Reading…

Converting a SVN repository to git

A few lines to converte a subversion repository in SVNURL to a repository GITNAME.git which is accessible at GITURL/GITNAME.git.

This assumes to that you crated a users.txt file in the [...] Continue Reading…

OCT Diagrams in TikZ

I decided to make my first really complex TikZ drawing: A diagram explaining the implementation of an Optimal Control Theory algorithm I did recently. [...] Continue Reading…

Printable Paper with LaTeX and TikZ

A little while ago, I played around with TikZ to make printable paper. As it turns out, this is absolutely trivial, and with just a few lines you can [...] Continue Reading…