Tag: language

Learning the Julia computer language on Ubuntu

There is yet another computer language, called Julia. What’s special with Julia, you may ask? It is a language specifically suited for tasks of scientists, engineers and students. Compared to a general purpose programming language, Julia has built-in those complex data types that you need in science. For example, multidimensional matrices are built-in in Julia. …

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Μαθήματα γλώσσας προγραμματισμού Python στα ελληνικά

Στο φόρουμ του Ubuntu-gr έχουν ξεκινήσει μαθήματα για τη γλώσσα προγραμματισμού Python. Το πρώτο μάθημα είναι για τη ρύθμιση του περιβάλλοντος Python στο σύστημά σας, οπότε μπορείτε εύκολα να λάβετε μέρος και να παρακολουθήσετε τα επόμενα βήματα. Μέσω του φόρουμ του Ubuntu-gr γίνεται και η μετάφραση στα ελληνικά ενός οδηγού εκμάθησης της γλώσσας Python, που …

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Workaround for bad fonts in Google Earth 5 (Linux)

Update Jan 2010: The following may not work anymore. Use with caution. See relevant discussions at http://forum.ubuntu-gr.org/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=15607 and especially http://kigka.blogspot.com/2010/11/google-6.html Older post follows: So you just installed Google Earth 5 and you can’t figure out what’s wrong with the fonts? If your language does not use the Latin script, you cannot see any text? Here …

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Playing with Git

Git is a version control system (VCS) software that is used for source code management (SCM). There are several examples of VCS software, such as CVS and SVN. What makes Git different is that it is a distributed VCS, that is, a DVCS. Being a DVCS, when you use Git you create fully capable local …

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Firefox 3 statistics, and the Greek language

Firefox 3 was released on the 17th June, 2008 and up to now, an impressive 22 million copies have been downloaded. kkovash had a peek at the stats and produced a nice post with diagram for the downloads of the localised versions of Firefox 3 (that is, excluding en-US). Downloads at [Release+3] days (20th June …

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ANTLR grammar for XKB, and Relax NG schema (draft)

I completed the ANTLRv3 grammar for symbols/ configuration files of XKB. The grammar can parse and create the abstract syntax tree (AST) for all keyboard layouts in xkeyboard-config. ANTLRv3 helps you create parsers for domain specific languages (DSL), an example of which is the configuration files in XKB. Having the ANTLRv3 grammar for a configuration …

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