Image via <a href="http://commons.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:EgyptphoneKeypad.jpg">Wikipedia</a> For my other project, I needed to process some Arabic text that was in HTML file derived from MSWord document.
Everything was going reasonably well, except my regular expressions were not picking section name/numbers sequences in all of the cases, which was causing a problem with the 6-language alignment algorithm.
Normally, I just examine the text visually, determine a new regular expression pattern and that particular problem is solved.
I like ANTLR! It is a specialized tool that can really be applied to many difficult tasks when regular expressions get all Dust Puppy like. And I have used it in the past with great success.
But, every time I put this particular tool aside, I know that picking it back up will be like making up after a bad break up. Things feel familiar, but you are still so uncomfortable you cannot get anything working.
Homegrown visualization is not the only way to quickly navigate CiteULike references. There are other tools that display bibliographies in interesting ways.
One of such tools is Exhibit, one of graduates from SIMILE project. It allows to do a very interactive webpage driven by just HTML+Javascript, with no server-side component required. I really like SIMILE’s tools, even though it feels like development slowed somewhat recently.
There is an example of how to import and display bibtext within Exhibit.
I am collecting my reading and reference material in CiteULike. I like the service because it can capture details from multiple sources. It also allows to discover what was collected by other interesting people through tags, people and bookmarks graph navigation.
Nice as CiteULike is, it is fairly difficult to get an overall picture of one’s own collection. It is especially difficult to see quickly if there are people who serve as hubs by collaborating with multiple different groups.
I am visiting my parents and connect to their network via wireless router. My laptop, which is (still!) running Vista kept dropping wireless connection every couple of minutes and reconnecting again. Interestingly, the other computers connected to the same router had no problems.
I could not figure out where to even start troubleshooting this issue, until I noticed that the problem only happens while I am running on battery and not when I am connected to the mains.