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Toronto Code Camp Live Blog

Derek and I are attending the Toronto Code Camp event, held at the York campus today.  The official link to the conference’s website can be found http://torontocodecamp.net/ The conference offers an impressive agenda of over 30+ seminars on various Microsoft technologies, everything from XNA on Windows 7 Mobile to SCRUM with VB.  Sounds like a [...]

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Docx to Doc Batch Converter

As some of you may know, I had the opportunity to work in a law firm last week.  It was an interesting week and it gave me a chance to see what it is like to work in Central, HK. During my stay in the law firm, I had to write up a bunch of [...]

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Converting Grksm to Unicode

An update on the Greek lexicon project that I am working on (hereafter arbitrarily re-named to Project Gibson)…. The Greek lexicon that I am analyzing consists of a series of Word documents, where each document represents a specific chapter  in the lexicon (for the most part, one document holds all the words starting with Alpha, [...]

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Python + MS Word = A Bag of Hurt

My uncle from Hong Kong recently contacted me about some problems that he was having with his research.  My uncle is a professor of Theology in Hong Kong; I’m not exactly sure what he does, or where he teaches, but apparently he needed some help with MSWord doc files. So I told him to e-mail [...]

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