Settling a score with a French teacher
– A French teacher once told me that there are no words with more than 3 consecutive consonants in the French language. Every once in a while, the thought resurfaces, just to pester me.
How to prevent Chrome from changing text color when printing
– When you print a page with Google Chrome, the text colour changes to make it easier to read. Here's how you can prevent this in CSS.
Office 2011 activation server unavailable? Here's the fix
– The solution was to look for updates to Office 2011. That's it. Saved you a click.
Fixing the "protocol error: bad pack header" error in git
– In my case, it was because I pulled a corrupted remote Gerrit repository, and tried to push the corrupted data back to the fixed remote.
Automatically tagging people for code review in Gerrit
– There is a way to tag people by default for all your commits in gerrit.
Playing with data: linking soldiers and war graves
– Over the past week, I have written about the Canadian Expeditionary Force and the Commonwealth War Graves Commission data sets. After loading both data sets in a common database, it is finally time to bring them together.
Cracking open the Canadian Great War Project database
– Extracting several hundred megabytes of data from the Canadian Great War Project website.
Parsing 65 000 war grave records with Python
– This week, we take a look at the 65 000 records of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission's data set.
Parsing 575k military records with Python
– The Canadian government made the records of the 660 000 Canadians who served in the First World War available as an open dataset. I decided to take a look at it.
Berlin now and then
– Over the course of a few months, I have mapped and recreated several historical photographs of Berlin.