It’s time for a couple of software announcements:
Dear Students,
I am writing to those of you who have signed up for my classes in Spring 2012 and those who remain on the waitlists for those classes because as you heave heard registration is closing on December 19th. You have also been told that registration may not reopen …
more ...California cut the California State University budget by another 100 million dollars mid-year, which makes the total budget cut for this fiscal year $750 million or a 27% reduction over last year. This brings the budget for the 23 campus system down to 1997-1998 levels (in non-inflation adjusted dollars) even …
more ...I recently found out that the total control lighting arduino library was not working with the new arduino IDE (version 1.0). I looking into it, found, and fixed the problem. The new arduino tcl library is now available for download. The code can of course be obtained from bitbucket …
more ...Next semester I’ll be doing a new course in computational simulation. I’m looking forward to the course and hope believe that it will be extremely useful for our physics majors who rarely do any programming. I am a bit apprehensive that it might mean a very heavy workload …
more ...In the weekend before Thanksgiving, I managed to draft a resolution and get our academic senate to hold a special meeting to pass a resolution condemning the police crackdown on UC students at Berkeley and Davis and in support of peaceful assembly. The resolution itself is below.
more ...I love mercurial for version control. I find it intuitive to use and simpler to integrate into my workflow than git. I also love that bitbucket allows me unlimited private repositories as well as public repositories. Bitbucket has become the place where I keep my code backups, both private and …
more ...If you receive an invitation to a private google groups list at a non-google email address, you can accept the invitation, but you will not be able to access the google groups page until you add your non-google email address to your list of alternate email addresses on your google …
more ...I have updated the tutorial I wrote on using Total Control Lighting with an Arduino. This new version of the tutorial makes use of the open source TCL Arduino library I wrote to make the process easy. Now everyone can quickly get up to speed, after all, only 342 days …
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