Monthly Archives: July 2008
Posting from my iphone
Although it’s a bit limited, e.g. creating links, I’m now able to post from my iPhone! It’s not only “neat” from a technology perspective but blurrs the lines between blog and social networking site. Almost a resurgence to distributed computing … Continue reading
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Educate yourself and while you’re at it, others too
As I wrote yesterday I love TED Talks… oh yea and I did also mention a growing sense of disenfranchisement. I try not to take the information I gather for granted, and one of the joys I experience is in … Continue reading
Posted in business, frustration, inspiration, social
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Can we break the generation gap in business?
I’m finally getting “settled” in my new role working from home and part of that means getting a chance to get through some podcasts. Actually, although I love TED Talks, I’m not actually a big fan of podcasts. Imagine taking … Continue reading
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One bit of Python I’ll never get…
>>> “hello”[2:4] ‘ll’ >>> “hello”[2:] ‘llo’ >>> “hello”[:4] ‘hell’ Do any of those not make sense to you? Here’s how I see it, and my confusion; “hello” represents a 5 character string… and indexing starts at 0, something most programmers … Continue reading
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Poor sad Oogle…
I don’t know if that’s how he spells his name, but just now… I think I broke his heart… If the records are correct, unbeknownst to me, Oogle and I have apparently had a close knit relationship. Oh, and there’s … Continue reading
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What if stocks were movies?
As you’ve seen from my previous posts, I’ve been playing with python, couchdb and been working my way through the “Programming Collective Intelligence” book. However, what I haven’t been talking about much is what I’ve actually been doing with it! … Continue reading
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python & couchdb sample
Lacking any good examples of how to use python’s couchdb module, I’ve managed to make pretty impressive progress (for me) on a 4th of July holiday. I’ll try to recreated it here for others although I know it’ll be incomplete. … Continue reading
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Quick mean python bug…
So I’ve been learning some python and love it! It’s highly functional and most of the libraries are “good enough”. This morning I recently discovered a bug I introduced when testing… not a bug in the class, but a bug … Continue reading
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