Mastering GitHub Pages (Jekyll and GitHub Pages)

Some time ago, the brilliant GitHub people gave me the following tip. Rajarshi is lazy, and might find it interesting. By appending .patch to the commit URL, a commit can easily be downloaded as patch. That way, developers can easily download it with wget or curl and apply it locally with git am, without having the fetch the full repository.

Recently, the page-proof, with corrections, of Einstein's 1920 publication on the "Propagation of Sound in Partly Dissociated Gases" was discovered in Leiden. The last two pages of the proof are crossed out and replaced by a sheet in Einstein's handwriting. In these notes, I briefly address the following two questions: A) Concerning the page proof, what is the difference between the contents of the crossed-out pages and the new page? B) Concerning the publication, are Eqs. (18,21,22) correct?

If you've ever needed to deploy Java applets, you may have found the information on best practices scattered, inconsistent, and unreliable. Applet-Fu is a small JavaScript library that makes it easy to deploy applets by taking advantage of Web standards and features already supported by mainstream browsers. More detailed discussion of Applet-Fu is available from the Metamolecular Products Blog and the ChemWriter Best Practices Deployment Page.

There is an excellent post on open science, prestige economies, and the social web over at Marciovm's posterous*. For those of you who aren't insanely nerdy** GitHub is… well… let's just call it a very impressive collaborative tool for developing and sharing software***. But don't worry, you don't need to spend your days tied to a computer […]