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Category Archives: Informatics
Using Google REST API for Analytics
If you are not a Google Engineer, OAuth2 for Google APIs can be a nightmare without good examples. If you think Facebook was bad at providing instructions, wait to get lost in a Microsoft-style ocean of useless information provided by … Continue reading
Distribution of Price on the Apple Application Store
Once iOS publishers have developed their application, paid $100 for having it distributed on the Apple App Store, went through the long approval process, they finally have to chose a price.
But before chosing a price, they could ask themselves:
“How did my competitors price their applications?” Continue reading
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Installing OpenFVM on Darwin (Mac OS X)
Yes. After many, many years I went back to GNU compilers and linkers Let’s say you want to simulate a fluid, and how it is heated by a hot cylinder. What do you do? You take a hot cylinder and … Continue reading
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Google Friends etc….
With Google Friends, you “add social features to your site”. Whatever that means! GF is an application based on Opensocial . Opensocial is a standard for having the same application working on different social network sites. The simplest feature, for … Continue reading
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Mirror Neurons
In 1992, three Italian researchers from Parma, Italy, were studying the motor cortex of monkeys’ brains – a region that until then was supposed to deal exclusively with movement. Through electrodes implanted in the brain, they could “see” neurons firing … Continue reading
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Drupal Installed
Building a community website for an online publication at the International Journalism Master – City University. Drupal has been installed. As we still have the project of the last year on www.londonproject.co.uk we have installed it at 2007.londonproject.co.uk. Log: Blocks. … Continue reading
Looking for some hosting
I have to work on the set up of the web sites of three organizations. I decided to use Drupal. Although I do not know Drupal very well, I’ve seen quite a few communities using it. I tried some demo, … Continue reading
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(Google) trends of Mathematics
The Financial Times published a nice comments about James Simons (available here for free). Sixty year old, Mr Simons is a mathematician who is “the most successful hedge fund manager ever.” His hedge fund group (Renaissance Technology) has a name … Continue reading
Passaggio dal software proprietario al software libero
L’errore che ho sempre fatto e` stato pensare che il software libero sia migliore di quello proprietario “in se` per se`”. Cosi` come si puo` pensare che un certo tipo di organizzazione della societa` sia migliore in se` per se`. … Continue reading