Month: December 2010

  • Why I don’t like Wikileaks

    Warning: Some of the statements in this piece contain irony and sarcasm, if you are unfamiliar with these concepts you might want to stop reading here. This week there is barely a day, where I am not bored with some trivia from the “embassy cables”. Now my first problem is that most of this is…

  • Java Lib to Launch External Processes

    I recently redesigned some of the code I tend to use to spawn external processes (pdflatex anyone?) in java. The implementation is still a bit buggy, but I am more interested in people’s opinions about the API (non-blocking killable invocations are not yet supported). The project on github is called jproc. Here is the cookbook…