Author Archives: Lex

Some Tips on How to Use Google Search

Posted on May 3, 2012 by Lex

Here are some tips that I often use in searching for information on Google, and after talking to my dad a month or so ago, I realized that these are not obvious things, but they do make my life a … Continue reading →

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Include Full BibTeX Entry Inside Text

Posted on January 28, 2012 by Lex

This isn’t rocket science, but you can insert BibTeX entries as you go, instead of (dumping all the references at the end in a “References” section. It’s useful when writing many chaotic pages of notes as you crawl through dozens … Continue reading →

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Backward Compatibility in C++ Libraries

Posted on January 19, 2012 by Lex

Backward compatibility is an important design goal of a software system that says that a new version of the software should play nice with the old version. As an example, Microsoft Windows has done a remarkably good job (in my opinion) … Continue reading →

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WampServer vs XAMPP

Posted on September 11, 2011 by Lex

This is not an Earth shattering post. Moreover, it’s not an objective one, that is, it is based on my experience and my experience only. WAMP is a bundle of Apache, MySql, and PHP (though often also Perl and/or Python) … Continue reading →

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Sorting a Sorted List in C++

Posted on July 4, 2011 by Lex

It came to my attention that I didn’t know how well STL sorting algorithms performed on a vector of values that are already sorted. One would hope it would be close to \(O(n)\). This page does a comparison of various … Continue reading →

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Auto Save Files in Emacs

Posted on June 26, 2011 by Lex

I’m resolving to make more frequent and regular posts on this “research” blog that’s so far has been just a place where I write down some basic tips and tricks that have to do with tools I use in programming … Continue reading →

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Software for Recording FLV Video Stream

Posted on June 4, 2011 by Lex

Live streaming FLV events are usually delivered via RTMP protocol. There are several tools that can capture these streams and others. Here is the list of the ones you should look into. Ones I’ve used and liked Jaksta Replay Media … Continue reading →

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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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