MATLAB seems to have a very peculiar notion on how to represent dates and times. Yesterday I spent a wonderful couple of hours debugging some code that’s supposed to compute the sun’s position, most of which could have been avoided if the MATLAB designers had followed a simple convention used by, I believe, most computing […]
I’m currently experimenting with new themes for this blog. I was not quite satisfied with the width that Typebased would leave me for giving code samples. So do expect some visual instabilities on this blog for the days to come. 🙂
ESP-r, is an integrated modelling tool for the simulation of the thermal, visual and acoustic performance of buildings and the assessment of the energy use and gaseous emissions associated with the environmental control systems and constructional materials, in the words of its official website. In other words, it’s a computer program for modeling a building’s […]
I think there’s no escaping this simple fact: the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) is definitely here to stay, and all the evidence shows that it has tremendous potential for being used in home automation devices. I still remember from a previous life when we hunted for a JVM implementation that would run with a minimal […]
In a previous post I described how I tweaked my WordPress installation to support the display of MathML markup, for displaying mathematical equations. One of the steps involved changing the content-type from application/html to application/xhtml+xml. That step was necessary, or else Firefox would simply not render the MathML markup properly. Unfortunately, application/xhtml+xml is simply not […]