Zzzoot

Postscript is one of my favourite programming languages. Resources for postscript programming are not too common, and are always popping up and then disappearing, as things tend to do on the Web...

https://zzzoot.blogspot.com/2022/09/postscript-coding-resources.html

 PART 2: AZURE Free Azure educational material. Ordered (oddly enough) by time length. Non-exhaustive, personally selected for my team and peer teams, but I hope useful for you too.  :-) ] ...

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 In this difficult time, many of us are at home, teleworking, (and worrying about the world around us), waiting for someone else to get off the #*%#!$@# VPN so we can get on it, quickly read ema...

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I am trying to improve my LaTeX/TikZ skills, so I am re-creating on request scientific article diagrams. The first is here that I've made for a friend of mine: Original diagram (Note this diagr...

https://zzzoot.blogspot.com/2015/08/learning-tikz-re-creating-article.html

I have just this morning released chidley , a code generator that reads XML and generates a Go program that can convert the given XML into JSON. Please see the github site for more details. I ...

https://zzzoot.blogspot.com/2014/08/chidley-xml-to-json-converter-written.html

rpmout is a utility for creating user facing rpm information written in Go. It extracts the rpm tag info (using the rpm command) and produces an HTML list fragment (default), JSON, simple text...

https://zzzoot.blogspot.com/2014/03/rpmout-go-golang-tools-for-listing.html

I have been working with processing.js but wanted to learn a little about d3js for visualizations, so took a look at Mike Bostock 's d3.js plugin for making Sankey diagrams . So I pulled do...

https://zzzoot.blogspot.com/2012/10/visualizing-canadian-energy-flows-with.html

I just took advantage of the opening-up of Google Scholar Citations and got my own page up . It is pretty cool to see your citations, etc. all pulled together.

https://zzzoot.blogspot.com/2011/11/my-google-scholar-citations-page.html

The July/August IEEE Software is a special issue on software as business, which includes one article that is Open Source oriented, and one that is "code sharing" oriented. Here are the articles...

https://zzzoot.blogspot.com/2011/07/ieee-software-on-software-business.html

The Aid Revolution begins with XML / The Aid Revolution Begins Here Publish What You Fund: The Global Campaign for Aid Transparency International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI) Very odd...

https://zzzoot.blogspot.com/2011/03/canada-not-involved-in-aid-transparency.html

Comparative E-Government Integrated Series in Information Systems Volume 25, 2010, DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4419-6536-3 Chapters involving Canada: Digital Government in North America: A Comparati...

https://zzzoot.blogspot.com/2011/03/comparative-e-government-canada.html

Some of my work includes consulting with the Canadian Forestry Service (CFS) at Natural Resources Canada (NRCan) in the area of scientific data management, digital repositories / archiving and pr...

https://zzzoot.blogspot.com/2011/01/visualizing-relationship-between.html

Francine Berman's call for a research data census in the U.S. recognizes the reality that the valuable research assets produced by public (and private) research funding is uncounted, mostly unman...

https://zzzoot.blogspot.com/2011/01/we-need-research-data-census-francine.html

Research data and metadata - usually derived from an experiment or series of experiments - is in the hot focus of the researcher during the experiment and the subsequent interpretation, paper wri...

https://zzzoot.blogspot.com/2010/12/research-data-and-metadata-at-risk.html

At the International Open Government Data Conference (IOGDC) Tim Berners-Lee "...reiterated his “FIVE STAR SYSTEM” for open government data : 1 Star for putting data on the Web at all, with ...

https://zzzoot.blogspot.com/2010/11/canadian-open-data-cities-no-stars-in.html

In the Multics--The first seven years (1972 Spring Joint Computer Conference) Corbato et al make the interesting statement: > "In spite of  the unexpected design iteration phase, the ...

https://zzzoot.blogspot.com/2010/09/not-in-spite-of-but-because-of-agile.html

This initially looked very promising: Mars , along with a number of collaborators (USDA, IBM, Clemson University Genomics Institute; Public Intellectual Property Resource for Agriculture at the U...

https://zzzoot.blogspot.com/2010/09/mars-inc-cacao-genome-database-claims.html

Volume 6267: Electronic Government and the Information Systems Perspective . First International Conference, EGOVIS 2010, Bilbao, Spain, August 31. September 2, 2010. Stakeholders’ Views on G...

https://zzzoot.blogspot.com/2010/08/conference-proceedings-electronic.html

My earlier entry/rant, It's not Open Data, so stop calling it that... about the non-Open Data nature of a number of Canadian cities' Open Data initiatives is supported by the just released Ten P...

https://zzzoot.blogspot.com/2010/08/what-is-open-gov-data-sunlight.html

The U.S. Association of Research Libraries (ARL) has produced a new report (E-Science and Data Support Services ).

https://zzzoot.blogspot.com/2010/08/arl-report-e-science-and-data-support.html

The recent reports on being able to predict Alzheimer's (Alzheimer's predicted by spinal-fluid test -- CBC, 2010.08.10) are the direct results due to the data sharing of scores of biomedical rese...

https://zzzoot.blogspot.com/2010/08/alzheimers-spinal-fluid-test-and.html

While it is a great positive change that data is being released through numerous efforts around the world, data release is not the same as Open Data release. A number of Canadian cities have anno...

https://zzzoot.blogspot.com/2010/07/its-not-open-data-so-stop-calling-it.html

Tomorrow is (sadly) my last official day* as a university visitor at the Australian National University (ANU), Canberra . I've been here since late June, invited by ANU adjunct and Funnelbac...

https://zzzoot.blogspot.com/2010/07/university-visitor-australian-national.html

The recent conference E-Government ICT Professionalism and Competences Service Science (IFIP International Federation for Information Processing, IFIP 20th World Computer Congress, Industry-Orie...

https://zzzoot.blogspot.com/2010/07/e-government-ict-conference.html

I am at the 2010 Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL2010) at Surfer's Paradise in Queensland, Australia. Among the many interesting papers are two papers very relevant to those interes...

https://zzzoot.blogspot.com/2010/06/jcdl2010-research-data-papers.html