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So we have this project in Ruby on Rails where we keep track of several reports. Now we need to do some visualizations with all those reports. We analyzed several solutions. One was using Google Fusion Tables but we soon realized it was not an easy...

Before going into how to solve the partitioned graph coloring problem using integer linear programming (which is the goal of my thesis), I thought it would be a good idea to actually explain what is the partitioned graph coloring problem (or PCP from...

Despite being able to simply provide a link to wikipedia’s already excellent article on Linear Programming, I wanted to provide a short introduction in order to present what I am doing exactly on my thesis in a future article. Linear Programming...

Continuing with the tradition started by Beta two years ago here in Manas, I am now dedicating all my efforts to finish my thesis in order to obtain my MSc degree in Computer Science at FCEN-UBA. Having started it a few months ago, Manas generously...

Whenever one of our team member travels to another country we tell her to track expenses like food, transportation and accomodation so that later that money can be refunded. Each of us does it in a different way: we write it in a notes application...

Introduction Disclaimer: this section is just happy talking, if you want to get right to the beef, skip it and go right to the beef. Yesterday was a sad day for me. It wasn’t meant to be like that. I began the day with the intention of setting up...

Many times we end up having similar tests: same logic but different inputs and expected outputs. For example, suppose we need to test our brand new sqrt function: test "sqrt 1" do assert_equals 1, sqrt(1) end test "sqrt 4" do assert_equals 2,

On the previous post I wrote a few lines on the basic usage of the accepts_nested_attributes_for method in rails models. I strongly recommend reading that post before this one if you haven’t. Although there is a standard way for deleting items, there...

It’s been a while since the last time I wrote something here. I realize I’ve promised several posts which never got written, such as some experiments with bizarre random number generators, the architecture of the silverlight DynamicDeepZoom app we...

Rails makes it easy to build HTML forms associated to a certain model. Simply using the form_for instruction on the view, writing a simple update method in the controller and setting validation logic on the model, makes standard CRUD operations incredibly...