Month: August 2010

I am currently using LaTeX to produce PDF output for a multilingual (polish characters anyone) business application. I hope to write a proper post about this once I am done. But I have to post the url of this blog which deals with doing nice contemporary typesetting with LaTeX.

Today’s lesson is from the book of stackoverflow 65,35-21: It’s a well known fact, that Oracle treats empty strings as null. I knew about that, but somehow I forgot…

On our current project we came up with a model train build monitor. The objective was to have the train move, while the build is green and to stop, when it goes red. The whole thing looks some what like this: As a USB interface we chose to go for the Velleman K8055, which is…