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 [...]
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 [...]
Thursday, November 12, 2009
You may have noticed that I’ve changed the visual theme for this blog to something more minimalist. I have also removed most of the widgets, which I am going to replace with some plain old links to me on other sites.
I did this in preparation for getting my act and starting writing again, [...]
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I have had a 24″ monitor at work for a while and recently bought myself a 24″ for use as a second monitor on my 17″ iMac at home. I really enjoy the extra screen real estate that a large monitor with a resolution of 1920×1200 provides. However most applications don’t really make good use [...]
Habits and habit forming can be an interesting aspect of human behavior: they seem to fall in to two broad categories in my mind. Habits are either hard to start and maintain until critical mass is achieved and after that can still require conscious maintenance to maintain. Or habits are easy to start but risk [...]