I’d like to introduce my latest personal project – See Stockholm.  This is a photo blog of my  life here in Stockholm, Sweden and is a photography project I’ve wanted to do for a while now.

The idea for this site was inspired by my  friend’s David duChemin and Dave Delnea‘s mantra of ‘create things & share it’.  Dave Powell’s photo blog has also been an inspiration to share my photographs more publicly.

Now that I’m settled in Stockholm, I’m  hoping to be able to also start posting to Endlessly Curious again.  And I’ll be posting my photographs to Shoot Stockholm on a regular basis.

1. Byline
   An excellant Google Reader client, perfect for reading the news during the commute to work.
2. Instacast
   For sync free podcast listening its hard to beat Instacast, I wish I’d found it sooner!
3. Camera+
   Apple should just buy this app to replace the built in camera application, its that good.
4. Tweetbot
   So much better than the official twitter client it isn’t funny!
5. Analytics Pro
   The best Google Analytics client I’ve found so far, very handy for checking up on your sites on the go!

The top ten posts for 2011 according to Google Analytics were:

1. Installing Python, MatPlotLib & iPython on Snow Leopard.
2. Finding duplicate files using Python.
3. Getting started with Python.
4. Praise for Python.
5. Basic Graphing with MatPlotLib.
6. Graphing real data with MatPlotLib.
7. Extracting image EXIF data with Python.
8. Python 2.7.1 Goodness.
9. Running WordPress on Mac OS X with XAMPP.
10. John Cleese on creativity.

Eight of the top ten are Python related, the top twenty is more diversified:

11. Querying Reddit with Python.
12. Barbara.
13. Processing Perforce command output with Python.
14. Downloading wallpaper images from Reddit using Python.
15. Why scrum fails…
16. Hacking work manifesto.
17. The ascendeancy of JSON.
18. Using Perforce counters to control syncing.
19. Why work doesn’t happen at work.
20. Small steps to big goals.

On a personal note I hope 2012 will bring more posts and less personal tragedy..

This weeks interesting links:

• Why Functional Programming Matters
  Not a new paper (1984!) but interesting take on the usefulness and potential scalability of functional languages.
• Learn you a Haskell for great good!
  An excellent online book for learning the Haskell functional programming language.
• How we Scrum
  A description of the scrum process at an indie game developer and how they’ve tailored it to their needs.
• Best resources for iOS programming
  A current summary of good online resources for programming Apple’s iOS devices (e.g. iPhone & iPad).
• Can you really get great shots with a point and shoot?
  Inspirational article about getting great photographs from compact point and shoot cameras rather than large, expensive DSLRs.
• The Fall Event
  Apple has ran a iPod music event every year in the fall until this year, this article speculates on what this means for the future of the iPod and on Apple’s changing priorities.

Some pages I’ve found interesting recently:

• Online Python Exercises
  A good summary of some of the Python exercises available online.  If this interests you also check out my ‘Getting started with Python’ post.
• The New Apple Advantage
  An insightful piece on Apples successful strategy of offering minimal configuration options for its phones, tablets and computers as a way to simplify the buying process and improve revenue.
• Developing Razor Sharp Focus
  Worth it alone for the very useful mind map.  I like his focus on creating rituals, managing email distractions and taking time to reflect and review.
• Why I Go Home: A Developer Dad’s Manifesto
  A very good post on work-life balance for software developers.  I especially liked the following observation: ‘If you screw up at your job you can always get another one, but if you screw up your family, especially your relationship with your children, it will stay with you and stay screwed up forever‘ so many people seem to fail to realise that jobs are temporary but family is forever..
• XKCD: File Transfer (Comic)
  Just why is transferring files still so awkward in this day and age?

This weeks intersting links:

• Lawyers: You’re Being Played By Twitter.
  An interesting post about how social media sites like Twitter are exploiting positive feedback loops and gamification to motivate users.
• How HTML5 will kill the native app.
  Does the trend for business to replace native smart device (e.g. Android/iOS) applications with HTML5 web applications mean the days of the native application are numbered?
• Why Can’t Developers Estimate Time?
  This post discusses the issues observed with Developer time estimates and proposes an alternative solution: teaching junior engineers the meaning of ‘done’.
• A Hard Thing is Done by Figuring Out How to Start.
  Rands discussing various strategies for getting started on a project: the hard part being figuring out where to start.
• Four Reasons We Choose Amazon’s Cloud as Our Computing Platform.
  Explaining the reasoning behind NetFlix’s adoption of the Amazon Cloud as its software platform.