Nothing special really but since I have to do a lot of things in Matlab these days, why not post some snippets in case anyone will need something like this and decides to search the Net for it.

Recently I have made another Java application with a nice splash screen. One important property of a splash screen is that it is displayed centered on the screen … and since multi-monitor setups are not all that common nobody bothers to test this centering on more than one monitor.

No, WebStrips is not dead yet! After more than half a year I have found some time again to put together version 0.4.3.

BSc thesis – day 5 I have been coding for the whole week now … and you know what? I am still not done. Its like every time I think I am almost done something new comes … some barrier … mostly bugs and similar annoyances of the software world

Maintaining a wiki project can be really tiresome sometimes. Especially if the community decides to reorganize the whole structure. For such occasions bots can be really handy. An explanation for the Ignorant: the term ‘bot’ stands for a computer program that simulates a really really limited subset of human behavior in order to accomplish some really really boring tasks (like moving 100 wiki pages to new addresses). The wiki page I am talking about here is E-Študij. It is an open portal for student notes, old exams with solutions and a lot of other similar data. Doing a reorganization on a page like this can be really boring if you have to do it by hand. Fortunately I have found this Python script. It is a bot framework that is also used to maintain all the official WikiMedia projects. A few hacks and half an hour later more than 100 pages have been renamed. And it is only the beginning …