Oskar Pettersson

Researcher in SECOs and TEL. Coder, beer geek and runner in decline.

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2015

Redmine Naive Time Log for Windows

Since I have been spending some time with Windows 10 recently, I decided to take Microsoft up on their free version of Visual Studio. Using that, I created a...

Vagrant Push

With Vagrant 1.7, Hashicorp released a new feature called Push. This site is currently being hosted on a standard PHP-web-hotel-ftp-whatever account, which e...

2014

Bibtex, blogging and you

A large part of my academic workflow is centered around Latex and Bibtex. Wordpress was not exactly ideal for that, even tho there are a few alternatives. Wi...

2013

Understanding Software Ecosystems for Technology-Enhanced Learning – a Case Study (ICCE 2013)

During the previous week I presented the work we have been doing with reference models during the past year for software ecosystems in TEL during the 21st In...

Diff LaTeX projects from GIT

LaTeX and its tool chain is my preferred way of writing publications. However, not everyone like it as much as I do obviously, and many have no idea how to u...

2012

RUC IT

RUC IT is a relatively new network of people involved in pedagogy with an interest for technology and how that technology can be used in schools. The network...

Using Git in university courses

During the workshop today I got some questions regarding git and how it works in general. In order to use the examples provided for the workshops you don't n...

MBP 2007 with lid open and only external screen

I am using an old Macbook Pro as a monitoring station for our servers and some other minor tasks. I also have an external screen set up with this to better a...

My presentation from WMUTE 2012

2011

Towards a Mobile Learning Software Ecosystem

Right before the vacations I successfully defended my licentiate thesis "Towards a Mobile Learning Software Ecosystem". Since I needed to figure out the dif...

MAMP trouble

I decided to spend some time on some of my neglected side projects this week as weather in Sweden haven't exactly been "summer-like". As they have been in hi...

Licentiate Thesis

It's time to present my licentiate thesis! It is an open defense so just drop by if you are around.

Slides for tomorrows workshop

I am giving a brief introduction to application development for mobile learning at tomorrows leaf workshop. The introduction will cover a little bit about ge...

Virtual Workshop on SE & TEL

During the middle of May me and Mamdouh Eljueidi from NTNU will host a virtual workshop for the Nordic LEAF Network. Virtual in this sense means that it will...

Making Mendeley Library Access work with Linnaeus University

Mendeley released a nice feature a while back that allows you to find the article you are currently browsing in full text via your library. Autodetection doe...

Tiny update

I am currently in the "refinement" phase of my licentiate thesis (which is something we do in Sweden, writing a thesis is so much fun that we do it twice). T...

The unfortunate case of the troublesome laptop

Everyone who knows me have probably heard me rant about the lack of quality in the Macbook Pro that I currently have assigned to me at work. It started with ...