Finally! My call for researchers to make available their publication lists as RSS has been heard! NRC decided to make it available for all their researchers, see this example.

(Source: Peter Turney)

Subversion is a great version control tool, but the scripts that accompany it are still immature. One of them, commit-email.pl is particularly bad. It goes on and on for hundreds of lines, and the end result is very poor usability. Earlier tonight, I found a better solution on the Web with color and all, then I fixed it. But I can’t figure out who I stole this from. In any case, here is my fixed commit-email.rb (run gunzip on it first). You may have to change the first line. To activate the script, edit the post-commit file of you repository (or create it from post-commit.tmpl) and make sure you have the following:


REPOS="$1"
REV="$2"
./commit-email.rb "$REPOS" "$REV"


where “commit-email.rb” is located in the same directory as “post-commit”.

TIME 2007 will be held in Alicante.

The 14th International Symposium on Temporal Representation and Reasoning will bring together researchers working in various areas that involve the representation of and reasoning about temporal phenomena. As with previous meetings in this well-established series (see http://time.dico.unimi.it), one of the goals of the TIME symposium will be to cast a bridge between theoretical and applied research in temporal representation and reasoning. Thus, we especially encourage submissions concerning temporal issues within areas such as Artificial Intelligence, Linguistics, Temporal/Spatial Databases and Applications of Temporal Logic in Computer Science, in order to achieve a multi-disciplinary perspective on the topic and to benefit from cross-fertilization of ideas.

DaWaK 2007 will be held in Regensburg, Germany in September 2007.

Submissions presenting current research work on both theoretical and practical aspects of data warehousing and knowledge discovery are encouraged. Particularly, we strongly welcome submissions dealing with emerging real world applications such as real-time data warehousing, analysis of spatial and spatiotemporal data, OLAP mining, mobile OLAP, mining natural science data (e.g. bioinformatics, geophysics)

Suppose you have incorrectly checked in a change to a file in a subversion repository. How do you revert back? This is documented elsewhere, but I want to document just exactly how I do it.

First of all, you need to know what are the most recent versions of your file, to figure it out, just do:


svn log myfile | head -n 10


where “-n 10″ is meant to only give you the first 10 lines of the log files, but you may need more if the comments are exhaustive. This should give you the latest revisions. Say they are 122 and 227, then just do reverse merge, like so:


svn merge -r 227:122 myfile
svn diff myfile
svn ci


The command “svn diff” is necessary to make sure that, indeed, you have reverted back the right changes.

I just found out about IEs4Linux. This is a beautiful project that allows you to run various version of Internet Explorer under Linux very easily. Ideal for testing out your web sites under IE!