Tyler Muth

…or any media that supports rich text or HTML. I often include code-snippets or queries in technical presentations. I find them much more visually appealing and easier to read if they include syntax highlighting. If you’re using Notepad++ on Windows, it’s trivial. Simply go to the “Plugins” menu > “NppExport” > “Copy all formats to […]

In a previous post I discussed a PDF reader that allows you to refresh the PDF after changes are made. This is the same concept except it’s for CSV files. I’ve been using Perl to convert sqlplus spool output to CSV which is much easier to read into R. As I’m updating my code and […]

I’ve been working in R (wikipedia entry) a lot lately to graph performance data about Oracle systems. In general I output PDF files. The problem with most PDF readers (on Windows) is that they either get an exclusive lock on the file when it’s open (yes you, Adobe Acrobat), or you have to close and […]