Analysing Debian packages with Neo4j
I just finished the presentation at the Neo4j Online Meetup on getting the Debian UDD into a Neo4j graph database. Besides the usual technical quibbles it did work out quite well. The code for...
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Fixing vim in Debian
I was wondering for quite some time why on my server vim behaves so stupid with respect to the mouse: Jumping around, copy and paste wasn’t possible the usual way. All this despite having...
TeX Live Manager: JSON output
With the development of TLCockpit continuing, I found the need for and easy exchange format between the TeX Live Manager tlmgr and frontend programs like TLCockpit. Thus, I have implemented JSON output for the...
ScalaFX: ListView with CellFactory
I had a bit hard time to get ScalaFX to display a list of items in a scrollable space, and each item can be clicked. I use this in TLCockpit to display the list...
Scala: parse JSON into nested case classes
I was playing around with parsing JSON in Scala, and got spray-json as recommendation from my Senpai. My aim was parsing some nested structure like: { “key1” : “value1”, “key2” : { “subkey1” :...
Software Development as mathematician in academia – everyone bites the dust
Is it possible to do software development, mathematical or not, as mathematician in academics? This is a question I was asking myself recently a lot, seeing my own development from logician at a state...
Signal handling in R
Recently I have been programming quite a lot in R, and today stumbled over the problem to implement a kind of monitoring loop in R. Typically that would be a infinite loop with sleep...
Fixing packages for broken Gtk3
As mentioned on sunweaver’s blog Debian’s GTK-3+ v3.21 breaks Debian MATE 1.14, Gtk3 is breaking apps all around. But not only Mate, probably many other apps are broken, too, in particular Nemo (the file...
就職活動
昨日僕の大学の契約が切れてしまった。これまで６年半北陸先端科学技術大学院大学で准教授として務めていたが、新年度から延長されないことになった。従って、新しい勤め先を探しているー僕の年齢を見るとあまりよろしくない。５年の件を潜脱した先端大学へ感謝！
Searching for a job
Yesterday my contract with my university JAIST ended. I was working there as Associate Professor for 6.5 years, but the university decided not to extend my contract (financial problems, foreigner in Japan). That means,...
How to rename a local OfflineIMAP managed folder
Since quite some time I am using OfflineIMAP to keep my mailbox status from various servers locally available on my machine. I did more or less follow the excellent guide A unix style mail...
git bisect – bug hunting made easy
While developing the script to integrate , we found a strange discrepancy between different versions of GhostScript. With the Yu fonts as distributed with OSX, newer versions of GhostScript crash, while my relatively old...
Multi-lingual blog – taxonomy – Tarski theme display II
An update to my about tagging post languages with the language used. Another thing I wanted is the display of flags instead of the short code of the language. In this post I explain...
Multi-lingual blog – taxonomy – Tarski theme display
As you might have seen, I am writing this blog in a few languages, mostly English of course, but also German (my mother tongue), Italian (where I lived for 2.5 years), and recently I...
Writing a nautilus-sendto extension for calling user defined scripts
Using nautilus-sendto extensions, the nautilus-sendto program allows sending selected objects to various targets, like mail programs, removable devices, bluetooth tools etc. Unfortunately it is not possible to easily add targets to this menu. There...
