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New snippets page… - 2008 September 21

There are many little tools/tricks/snippets of information that I use all the time. So I tried to capture these on a page here on my site: Snippets of Useful Information ...

It’s been a while… - 2008 April 25

..since I’ve posted anything. I’ve been in the process of rewriting my site. I’m tired of Wordpress, tired of escaping code, tired of futzing with code to make it readable, ...

A great way to copy a large directory of files while away from home… - 2008 April 01

I wanted a copy of my svnsync’d version of the SVN repo while at PyCon. It’s about 450MB (and it’s not up-to-date currently)… but it has quite a few files. ...

Getting ready for PyCon Day 2… - 2008 March 15

It was an exciting first day at PyCon. I met Ben Collins-Sussman, Brian Fitzpatrick (who is just as down to earth as he appears to be), Ted Leung, Steve Holden ...

Charting in Numbers is rather disappointing… - 2008 February 21

So, I bought IWork ‘08 the other day and started playing around with it. I was glad to see they fixed a couple of things with IWork ‘06—there was some ...

Management… - 2007 September 11

Probably one of the most difficult tasks in front of me at this point in my career is managing people. Unlike some of my counterparts, I was not born with ...

Recommended reading… - 2007 August 08

I just added a new page called Recommended Reading that talks about some books that I’ve found invaluable as a software engineer. I’ve got a few more books to add, ...

Back up and running… - 2007 June 22

Well, that was an adventure I don’t care to repeat. For those of you who are suffering from the 10.4.10 update, use the Archive and Install from your install CD ...

Ergonomics and Dvorak… - 2006 December 23

After working some ridiculous hours for a number of weeks, I managed to get RSI in my right arm. It wasn’t too bad. It mainly ached, no sharp pains or ...