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Merging Pdf Pages

Posted on Monday 28 June 2010 by J. D. Bartlett

What on Earth? This post describes one method of merging the pages of two pdf documents. That is, creating an ouput file where page 1 of the output is the result of merging page 1 of each of the inputs, … Continue reading →

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Piano Music: “For Mandie”

Posted on Monday 14 June 2010 by J. D. Bartlett

For the music lovers out there, here is the sheet music for my piano composition entitled For Mandie. It’s a good fun piece to play, and you don’t need to be a virtuoso to be able to play it. Getting … Continue reading →

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Something Beautiful

Posted on Monday 7 June 2010 by J. D. Bartlett

I was inspired recently to write a computer program which draws pretty images. Here are a few screenshots. Getting the Code I have uploaded the code to bit bucket. If you have mercurial installed, you can get it by typing: … Continue reading →

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What If: Trivia Show Software

Posted on Monday 24 May 2010 by J. D. Bartlett

Earlier this year I was involved in hosting a kind of trivia evening. In order to make things more exciting, each round was worth more points than the previous. The evening was a huge success, but since there were about … Continue reading →

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HATE: Python-based Terminal Emulator

Posted on Monday 10 May 2010 by J. D. Bartlett

Introduction A while ago I came across a terminal emulator called HATE: the High Availability Terminal Emulator. The original idea was for it to be a terminal emulator that could survive X crashing, but what caught my eye was the … Continue reading →

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