Skip to content

Monthly Archives: December 2009

Myth of the Genius Programmer

Thursday, December 10, 2009

From the Google I/O 2009 conference:
“A pervasive elitism hovers in the background of collaborative software development: everyone secretly wants to be seen as a genius. In this talk, we discuss how to avoid this trap and gracefully exchange personal ego for personal growth and super-charged collaboration. We’ll also examine how software tools affect social behaviors, and [...]

Filed in Misc, Software Engineering | Tagged , , | Comments (0)

Installing MatPlotLib on Snow Leopard with MacPorts

Tuesday, December 8, 2009

I have been trying to install the excellent MatPlotLib graphing module for the Python programming language on my iMac for a while now. Unlike most python module installations I’ve done the excellent python SetupTools (a.k.a easy_install) has not been up to the task.  So I ended up using MacPorts (version 1.8.1) to get MatPlotLib (version 0.99.1.1) installed on Snow [...]

Filed in How To, Python | Tagged , | Comments (7)