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LaTex

The purpose of this page is twofold: to give you a general overview of TeX/LaTeX, and to help you figure out whether or not you actually need it. My personal attitude toward the comparison of TeX and Microsoft Word is also discussed in detail here. Overall, it maybe long and potentially tedious. Please make sure that you are a rookie to LaTeX, or you just skip it. In my word, “Ignore it”.
It begins with Donald Ervin Knuth, who is a renowned computer scientist of Stanford University and won Turing Award at 1974. (Excellent!) He started his design on TeX—a typesetting system that he thought could use to create beautiful books. It is powerful for scientific typesetting. However, lots of people think that it is too powerful to master, especially when it comes to layout design.
How to learn LaTeX: here I recommend two books one is written in English called The Art of LaTeX which is written by a Duke student. The other one is a famous one called lshort. Anyone who want it or who want to discuss with me, please feel free to contact me.

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CTeX 论坛, CTeX官网, LaTeX学习,提问的智慧, University of Colorado at Boulder, LaTeX commands, LaTeX编辑部, 浙大数学系
More information is comming soon.

WordPress

WordPress is an open source blog publishing application powered by PHP and MySQL which can also be used for basic content management. It has many features including a user-friendly workflow, a rich plugin architecture, and an advanced templating system.
It was first released in May 2003 by Matt Mullenweg as a fork of b2/cafelog. As of September 2009, it is being used by 202 million websites worldwide.
WordPress has a templating system, which includes widgets that can be rearranged without editing PHP or HTML code, as well as themes that can be installed and switched between. The PHP and HTML code in themes can also be edited for more advanced customizations. WordPress also features integrated link management; a search engine-friendly, clean permalink structure; the ability to assign nested, multiple categories to articles; and support for tagging of posts and articles. Automatic filters that provide for proper formatting and styling of text in articles (for example, converting regular quotes to smart quotes) are also included. WordPress also supports the Trackback and Pingback standards for displaying links to other sites that have themselves linked to a post or article. Finally, WordPress has a rich plugin architecture which allows users and developers to extend its functionality beyond the features that come as part of the base install.
The domain name of wengjn.com is registered on godaddy and the virtual machine is on lixiangweb.

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Wordpress themes, 帕兰印象，老杨空间, Wordpress 教程网, Wopus 中文博客平台, Where to start, 5 minutes install, 不许联想, 乱云时间,

For a Ph.D. student (Useful Links)

Bill gates’ 11 rule of life

List of resources for computer science students by William Stalling

Collected advice on research, writing, and presentation

Resources for technical writing and presentation

Resources for finding and managing references

For Vandy grad students: My WithIT seminar talk

All above are from Prof. Yi. Cui @ Vanderbilt University

 Advice collection for Ph.D. student from Xie Tao @NCSU

Pesonal academic web style could see Alex Orso @Gatech