Monthly Archives: May 2011

Open Source Software Engineering is Not Communism

Posted on May 20, 2011 by Lex

I’ve worked on a number of software engineering projects over the years that involve a group of 3-5 developers. I’ve also contributed to large open source projects of 20+ developers. The figure to the left is taken from a post … Continue reading →

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LaTeX and Google Docs

Posted on May 14, 2011 by Lex

I came across a project called latexlab which seeks to develop a web-based LaTeX editor by utilizing the Google docs base editor and Google Web Toolkit. I played around with it for about 30 minutes and am very impressed. You … Continue reading →

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Ubuntu 11.04 Unity Gets in the Way of the User

Posted on May 3, 2011 by Lex

Ubuntu has released a new version (11.04) of its Linux operating system. Instead of going with Gnome 3, it went with Unity as the default desktop environment. I’ve now used both Unity and Gnome 3, and it continues to confuse … Continue reading →

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Exploring Database Tables with jQuery

Posted on May 1, 2011 by Lex

I woke up this morning tired of phpMyAdmin, and decided to take a stand. phpMyAdmin is a web-based tool that most big hosting companies use for their shared hosting plans. It’s powerful in terms of the set of features it … Continue reading →

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