Senhas e Reconhecimento Biometrico

Published on November 14, 2014.

Ontem eu fui no shopping para comprar algumas coisas e aproveitei para passar no banco. Nessa agência, todos os terminais de auto atendimento possuem leitor biométrico (digital) e você só pode fazer qualquer transação após realizar seu cadastro biométrico. Neste post vou tentar lhe explicar porque você deveria evitar utilizar biometria como senha.

WebKit and MathML

Published on November 3, 2014.

Some interested bugs from WebKit related with MathML

• Implement the MathML Operator Dictionary
• Add Support for mspace element
• background colors do not apply to <mo> elements <https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=130470>
• The MathML mtext element should use a regular font by default
• Implement mathcolor and mathbackground attributes
• Implement MathML mfenced element
• MathML merror element style adjustments

More than &quot;I can use your slides&quot;

Published on October 29, 2014.

A few days ago a friend of mine, Greg Wilson, wrote about his Shuttleworth Foundation Fellowship Application. Here are some of my thoughts after read Greg's application.

Technology

Greg's said that

Open education shouldn't mean "I can use your slides", but rather, "We can all work together to make those slides (and exercises, and videos) better for everyone." The technical tools for doing this have been around for years; I think they can help educators just as much as they've helped programmers, but somebody has to get the ball rolling.

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Responsive Design and Math

Published on October 24, 2014.

From Wikipedia

"Responsive web design (RWD) is a web design approach aimed at crafting sites to provide an optimal viewing experience—easy reading and navigation with a minimum of resizing, panning, and scrolling—across a wide range of devices (from mobile phones to desktop computer monitors)."

Responsive design is a nice feature for web pages and EPUBs. At this post you will get an overview of the status of responsive design for math.

The Status of Math in Open Access

Published on October 22, 2014.

This week, October 20–26, 2014, held the Open Access Week (see the announcement) and will end with Mozilla Festival that has a awesome science track. This post has some thoughts about math and open access and this two events.

Open Access and Math

From Budapest Open Access Initiative we have

"By "open access" to this literature, we mean its free availability on the public internet, permitting any users to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of these articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without financial, legal, or technical barriers other than those inseparable from gaining access to the internet itself. The only constraint on reproduction and distribution, and the only role for copyright in this domain, should be to give authors control over the integrity of their work and the right to be properly acknowledged and cited."

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