When I started my DPhil, I set myself assignments in order to cover the lit review in easy bite-sized chunks. This worked pretty well but the collated material was scattered across different Word documents, which meant that I couldn’t look at everything at one glance or search the content. However at about the same time, [...]
It was a matter of time before someone wrote a robot that grabbed latex and returned an image after latex processing. LaTeXy does exactly that and has just increased tenfold the usefulness of wave for academics.
Peter Drucker: "There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all."
About two years ago we talked about filehamster. It was free, unobtrusive, and simpler than doing version control ‘by hand’ (adding numbers to filenames) or ‘by machine’ (using a proper versioning tool such as subversion or mercurial). Well, since then filehamster has moved on to be a pain in the ass. Now the free version [...]