Tag Archives: Geekiness

Using the reshape package in R for pivot-table-like functionality

By Ananda | Published: August 8, 2010

A little more than a week ago, I wrote about creating pivot tables in Microsoft Excel and OpenOffice.org. I also mentioned that I would explain how to do similar calculations by using R. This post will explain how to achieve similar results in R by using the reshape package. I had initially started experimenting with [...]

Posted in (all categories), Geekiness, Useless Knowledge | Also tagged , , , , , , , , , , | 8 Comments

Making an A6 booklet in OpenOffice.org the easy way

By Ananda | Published: November 19, 2009

Tutorial level: Elementary I recently had to create an A6 booklet for an event that was being hosted by DHAN Foundation/Tata-Dhan Academy. At first, I thought it would be a nightmare to design and print it—particularly because I only had one day to do the layout for a 60+ page book—but it turns out that [...]

Posted in (all categories), Geekiness, OpenOffice.org | Also tagged , , | 1 Comment

CintaNotes and TiddlyWiki and Dropbox Fun

By Ananda | Published: October 20, 2009

Kiran just reminded me the other day of something I heard about some one year ago or something, but which I had sort of shrugged off because of my slow internet connection: Dropbox. Well, with the reminder came with another set of exploration, in particular, beyond backup, sharing, and synchronization–all of which Dropbox does really [...]

Posted in (all categories), Geekiness | Also tagged , , | 4 Comments

Drop caps with OpenOffice.org Writer

By Ananda | Published: September 21, 2009

Tutorial Level: Elementary From time to time, I like some minor embellishments in my design, and one such embellishment I use is the drop cap that you commonly find in magazines and so on. In OpenOffice.org (OOo) it is pretty easy to do this throughout a document. As with the last tutorial, this one is [...]

Posted in (all categories), Geekiness, OpenOffice.org | Also tagged , , | 2 Comments

Automation with OpenOffice.org Writer

By Ananda | Published: July 26, 2009

Tutorial Level: Intermediate At the Tata-Dhan Academy where I work, with each new batch of students, we try to promote the adoption of freeware or open-source software instead of promoting the already ridiculous levels of piracy that goes on around here. So, during our orientation, we introduce the students to OpenOffice.org—something which, unfortunately, causes many [...]

Posted in (all categories), Geekiness, OpenOffice.org | Also tagged , , | Leave a comment

2657 Productions is going to get a facelift

By Ananda Mahto | Published: June 23, 2008

I’ve been trying to keep myself busy recently. As I mentioned in my earlier post about the DAMN It! website, one of the reasons I did it was to experiment with some layout stuff. This then translated into me exploring WordPress Themes, using the Sandbox theme as my foundation. There is still a bit of [...]

Posted in (all categories), 2657 Productions, CSS, Geekiness, Website | Also tagged , , , , | Leave a comment

Nested Lists and CSS

By Ananda Mahto | Published: March 2, 2007

I don’t use lists too often for my own stuff, but I do have to use them often either with my work or with school assignments. Often these lists can be quite long, and have many lists nested within each other. I was recently converting an outline from a Word document to an HTML document, [...]

Posted in (all categories), CSS, Geekiness | Also tagged , , , | 4 Comments