The avalanche beacon (typically known as ARVA in Europe: Appareil de Recherche de Victimes d´Avalanches) is an electronic device used to locate/be quickly located when trapped under a snow avalanche. Back in 2004 I presented an avalanche beacon rescue simulator as my Masther Thesis. The main goal was to try to better understand current rescue techniques, [...]
Tagged Code & DemosEl ARVA (Appareil de Recherche de Victimes d´Avalanches) es un dispositivo electrónico que sirve para localizar/ser localizado rápidamente en una avalancha de nieve cuando realizamos actividades invernales con un grupo. En 2004 realicé como proyecto fin de carrera un simulador de rescates en avalanchas con ARVA, dentro de la titulación de ingeniería informática en la Universidad [...]
Tagged Code & DemosDonald Knuth said that premature optimization is the root of all evil. And I cannot but completely agree. Abstracting to a higher level is always better for both the code writer and especially the code reader and maintainer. It also makes you focus on the problem you are solving. Optimization can be done later, if [...]
Tagged Code & Demos, N-gram, Performance, Python, Shell, TutorialEspaña es miembro del IHTSDO y por tanto, tenemos a nuestra disposición la terminología médica SNOMED CT. Para ello, el Ministerio de Sanidad habilitó un área de recursos semánticos en su web. En la página se describen los pasos necesarios para descargarlo: es necesario disponer de un certificado digital de la FNMT. El mismo que [...]
Tagged SNOMED CT, TutorialsWhat about sharing your publications in an elegant way by using only a bibtex file as source? Check mine or Javier Campos‘ to see what I mean. You just need to use WordPress and the bib2html plugin. It’s pretty simple, but there are a few caveats. First, install the bib2html plugin from WordPress using the [...]
Tagged Bib2html, Publications, Tutorial, WordpressGoogle Code Jam is here again! A great opportunity to practice with the excellent exercises provided. I just took exercise A from the Qualification Round 2009. If you have a quick look at it… aren’t they asking for pattern matching? Aren’t you seeing regular expressions there? I did, they were just using “( )” instead [...]
Tagged Code & Demos, Google Code Jam, RubyIn the previous post I presented a Ruby script to download and rename “El Quijote” audiobook from a site which was far from user friendly (remember there were 126 badly named, badly ID3-tagged MP3 files to download). There was still something not solved by the script: the ID3 tags of the MP3 files. id3lib, a [...]
Tagged Code & Demos, Quijote, Rake, Rakefile, RubySomeone I know bought a brand new PC with a 64-bit Windows 7. Unfortunately, plugging in the Alcatel X060s USB modem didn’t work. After unsuccessfully trying a lot of drivers from the Internet, here is the only one providing a patch that works: Alcatel X060 Driver for Windows 7 (32 & 64 bits). Update(April 14th, [...]
Tagged Alcatel X060s, Windows 7Warning: This worked for me on Trac 0.11.1 hosted at Dreamhost as of March 2010 but I take no responsibilities. Use this information at your own risk. Trac is a very popular open source system to manage software development projects, but it can also be very useful for other management tasks. Installing Trac on Dreamhost [...]
Tagged Dreamhost, Trac, TutorialDon Quixote (Don Quijote), probably the most famous Spanish text of all times, is available for free as an audiobook (in Spanish), thanks to a cultural project from the Government of Aragón (Spain). Unfortunately, someone decided that the best distribution method was to provide the users with 126 links (one MP3 file for each chapter). [...]
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