ambs – Page 27 – /dev/null

Java User-Friendness

March 20, 2012ambsLeave a Comment

I can’t see how people say Java is an end-user language, whose applications are for general user usage… SEVERE: Exception javax.xml.transform.TransformerException: org.apache.fop.fo.ValidationException: “fo:inline” is not a valid child of “fo:block”! (See position 1870:716) at org.apache.fop.cli.InputHandler.transformTo(InputHandler.java:302) at org.apache.fop.cli.InputHandler.renderTo(InputHandler.java:130) at org.apache.fop.cli.Main.startFOP(Main.java:174) at org.apache.fop.cli.Main.main(Main.java:205) Caused by: javax.xml.transform.TransformerException: org.apache.fop.fo.ValidationException: “fo:inline” is not a valid child of “fo:block”! (See position […]

Computer Science

Symposium on Languages, Applications and Technologies

March 15, 2012March 15, 2012ambsLeave a Comment

I am the Chair of the Symposium on Languages, Applications and Technologies. It is the first year this conference will take place, but some of its tracks have some history. There are three main tracks, on Human-Human Languages processing (processing of natural languages), Human-Computer Languages processing (processing of programming languages) and Computer-Computer Languages processing (communication […]

Computer Science

Classification Systems

March 15, 2012March 15, 2012ambsLeave a Comment

Yesterday I gave an invited class on Classification Systems. I prepared some slides that are available on Slideshare. It is an opinionated view on four different types of classification: folksonomies, taxonomies, thesauri and ontologies. The online version lost some quality, but you can download the PDF version. Hope this is interesting for someone. Classification Systems […]

movie

Thor (2011)

February 29, 2012February 29, 2012ambsLeave a Comment

Yeah, I agree. It is kind of strange that for the Thor movie I post this picture. But to be sincere, I tried to capture one before, but I was too slow. This was what I get but I didn’t dislike it. So, here it is. Not really a Natalie Portman fan, but she is […]

movie

Captain America: The First Avenger (2011)

February 27, 2012February 29, 2012ambsLeave a Comment

Yeah, I couldn’t resist on posting here a screenshot with all these girls.First of all, a disclaimer: I am not a fan of Marvel Comics (the original books), but I am enjoying Marvel attack on the cinema. But I had in mind that Captain America didn’t use a gun. But probably I am wrong. Regarding […]

movie

Open Season (2006)

February 26, 2012ambsLeave a Comment

2006 seems to be the year of animal movies. Over the Hedge and Madagascar (2005) are more or less from the same time. But unlike these two, Open Season is warm movie. No big features, no big story, a minimal with no quality soundtrack and just some cool animation and a hand full of jokes. […]

complains web

Google Docs: Presentation

February 22, 2012ambsLeave a Comment

Some time ago Google Docs (gdocs for short) was advertising their new presentation editor. Yesterday and today I decided to prepare two small presentations for a mini-meeting tomorrow, and use gdocs for that. The editor is not anything extraordinary, mostly a pair of text areas where one can write the slides content. As my slides […]

movie

Group Sex (2010)

February 5, 2012ambsLeave a Comment

She is cute. Very cute. Love the eyes, the lips, the small mouth, the smile. I found her cute right in the first episode of House, current season (8). I would probably not watch this movie if I didn’t notice her name in the credits. If the title helped in this decision? Probably. But […]

movie

X-Men: First Class (2011)

January 31, 2012January 31, 2012ambsLeave a Comment

I am a X-Men fan, but not a X-Men Comics fan. Probably because I didn’t read them when I should, and now I think it would be a waste of money to start buying all books. Well, back to the movie. I think the movie is good for a start of the story. I know […]

C Perl windows

Nine tools I can’t live without (for Windows)

January 30, 2012January 30, 2012ambsLeave a Comment

First, a relevant disclaimer: I use Windows mostly for two purposes, test my Perl modules under a Windows environment, and printing some stuff as my Mac sometimes can’t find some Windows printers in the network. This said, my Windows runs in a virtual machine, and I install these tools right after installing Windows. Browser The […]