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How to use pandoc to generate a letter from a markdown?

by Mallim in Pandoc 1 min read

Really lazy to use Microsoft Word to write something. So I proceed to try pandoc with Miktex installed on Windows. Finally, got what I need and I have to start to think how to write the letter... Final result Based on the template from Pandoc Letter Template (DIN 5008), with the ...

There is a utility known as robocopy in windows ...

by Mallim in Windows 2 min read

This utility is pretty interesting if you want to do bulk copy via command line in windows. This post is my quick reference on it. robocopy is a wonderful alternative in Windows (though not par with rsync) available out of box, native command simple syntax and well documented (ro ...

maven hangs at jackson-annotations 2.9.0

by Mallim in Java 1 min read

Followed the instructions at JACKSON DEPENDENCY ISSUE IN SPRING BOOT WITH MAVEN BUILD to resolve the issue. For an example of the maven pom.xml, you can look at https://github.com/mallim/java101/tree/master/spring-async-complfuture

Where can I find cheatsheets for Python?

by Mallim in Python 1 min read

Here is what I found: Cheatsheet for Matplotlib available at python-cheat-sheet - markdown format Python For Data Science - A Cheat Sheet For Beginners - I keeping to this one Python Crash Course - Cheat Sheets but all in PDF Python Cheat Sheet for Data Science: Basics there is ...

Let My Future be Complete...

by Mallim in Java 1 min read

Introduction I have tried and put up some examples at https://github.com/mallim/java101 (look for completablefuture package). On my laptop, RealLifeWithoutCompletableFutureExample took 15087 ms and RealLifeCompletableFutureExample 5098 ms. Hmm.. so there is a a difference. Librar ...

Frontend Developer Handbook

by Mallim in Handbook 1 min read

I spotted this on 2015 where the handbook is actually known as Front-End Developer Handbook 2016. And now it is updated to Front-End Developer Handbook 2017. Wow