Category: software

Exploring Objective-C programming

I used to do a lot of pro­gram­ming. As a young teenager I was the lucky owner of a Com­modore C64 doing my best to pro­gram mov­ing starfields and Urid­ium clones in assem­bler. Much later, dur­ing one stage of my career I was heav­ily involved in train traf­fic sim­u­la­tor devel­op­ment. This meant get­ting fairly proficient […]

No bullets for Strategy’s strategist…

Yes­ter­days post about McK­in­sey Quarterly’s inter­view with Richard Rumelt [D. Lovallo and L. Men­donca, “Strategy’s strate­gist: An inter­view with Richard Rumelt”, The McK­in­sey Quar­terly, nr.4, pp.56–67, 2007] left out one impor­tant point. The bul­let point. In another post back in Jan­u­ary, I men­tioned that I’d read Edward Tufte’s “Visual dis­play of quan­ti­ta­tive infor­ma­tion” and “Visual Explanations”. […]

Tuesday March 30th, 2010 in Books, People, software | 1 Comment »

Automatically creating an index in LaTeX

When I wrote my doc­toral the­sis I decided that I wanted an index. I even­tu­ally man­aged to cre­ate one with the help of a Tcl script that I wrote. You can see the final result in the pic­ture below. Why write my own script? Although I’d known for a long time that I wanted an index, […]

Monday March 22nd, 2010 in software | 7 Comments »