Over the years at work I have tried various solutions to task management: the mental to-do list, the simple paper notebook, the electronic PDA or Smartphone, to-do software or combinations of the above. I have until recently not found a solution that lets me list my tasks and record what I actually do each day.
My solution [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]