For the last few days I've been investigating possibilities to create presentations that will output a mixture of HTML / CSS / JS and are created by either using plain HTML or some kind of markup language. The general idea behind this approach is that for 90% of the presentation you create you will follow a simple set of styles and you will not need some special visualizations. What is most interesting for me is to use my standard work environment, like my editor of choice and leave the styling to a predefined set of markups, probably following some corporate...

When you are working with main memory it is crucial to make sure that all the data structures are correctly sized and aligned. A typical approach is to create blocks of data that are processed independently. For the developer, the question is how large such blocks should be? The answer is that those blocks should always be either cache sized. Now, how large is the cache on the system you are using? Either you can go for experiments detecting the different cache levels and the cache line sizes, or if you are happy to have a Intel Linux system at...

Stumbling across the Vim Movements Shortcuts Wallpaper, I decided to make one for Emacs. Basically I really like the idea of having a real quick reference to the most important shortcuts on your desktop. If you have any additional shortcuts that you would love to have, please leave a comment. If you want to modify the wallpaper, I uploaded the original PDF version of the wallpaper that you can easily modify with any tool of your choice.