Month: May 2008
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This week's roundup
Busy week again at Mendeley HQ, so just a few short notes of what we’ve been up to. Besides Mike joining us – and of course ongoing development work on both Mendeley Desktop and Mendeley Web – we’re still on the lookout for a new office. We did see a few interesting ones, such as…
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Are you advising Master Theses?
Well, I am. Currently I have six students writing their master thesis under my supervision, and if you’ve ever done this before, then you know the amount of work that goes into that job. Especially when you have to compile and distribute literature lists to each of the students, it can be quite a hassle…
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Mike Arthur joins Team Mendeley
This week marks the end of Jan, Paul and me spending our days at Mendeley HQ all by our lonesome. Beause this week, dear readers, we are joined by our new software engineer Mike Arthur whom we managed to snatch from the claws of British Telecom! That’s him there, on the right. Mike has signed…
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Edo anatomy
I recently wrote about how some of the statistics I designed for Mendeley Web vaguely reminded me of Edo period woodprints. So when I stumbled across these captivating Kaibo Zonshinzu anatomy scrolls painted in 1819, I wanted to share them with you. I was fascinated by Pink Tentacle’s observation that “Unlike European anatomical drawings of…
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One fine day…
Today was one of these days you dedicate to fixing front-end bugs and make elements of your website look good in the most popular browsers. And again, it turned into one of these days when you just pray that, on some beautiful day, everyone gets rid of the heavily outdated and terrible Internet Explorer 6.…
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