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Prosper

I’ve been looking for a decent way of creating presentations for a long time. I think my search may be over:

Prosper is a LaTeX class for writing transparencies. It is written on top of the seminar class by Timothy Van Zandt. It aims at offering an environment for easily creating slides for both presentations with an overhead projector and a video projector. Slides prepared for a presentation with a computer and a video projector may integrate animation effects, incremental display, and such.

Software Engineering vs Computer Science

Just some pointers on the difference between Software Enginnering and Computer Science:

• Software Engineering is not Computer Science by Steven C. McConnell
• Why Software Enginnering is no B.S. by Charles Connell
• Engineering and Science (Similarities and Differences) by Lawrence J. Kamm
• Engineering and Education for the Future by Eduard A. Lee and David G. Messerschmitt
• O que é a Engenharia Informática? by António Dias de Figueiredo (Portuguese Only)

Major refactoring

Just made a major refactoring to the blog rendering engine. So expect some problems here and there.

The Future?

The future of PDAs?

• 1 GHz Crusoe Processor
• 256 MB RAM
• 30 GB HardDisk
• Nifty small low power LCD on the back for small tasks like checking for new e-mails

Color Scheme

A nice color scheme generator.

Mozilla Firefox

Mozilla Firebird, ahem, Firefox 0.8 released. Name changes, bah …

Computer Languages History

Very interesting chart depicting the evolution of Computer Languages.