Wire Free Office

As my home office continues its "work in progress" phase. I'm continually looking for ways to declutter it from excessive computer wires. Hence the declutter your desk page.

Quicksilver b54

For some reason at the blacktree stie quicksilver only goes up to b53. I heard the developer had left the project and is working for google, which explains the lack of updates for the application.

Why is this important. Well I wasted about 20 minutes of my day trying to get the famous control-enter (ctrl-enter) to work for quicksilver to set myself a reminder. Eventually I found that this was a bug that had to do with quicksilver and Leopard.

Moral of the story? Download the b54 build from macupdate to handle all those nasty quicksilver/leopard incompatibilities.

For those terminal geeks like me

How freaking awesome is this!

Coding Languages

In my other blog I always tried to address the issue of which programming language is best for bioinformatics. To be bluntly honest, I think most of my assessments were BS for the lack of a better term. How can I suggest which language is best which out trying out all on my own. Which brings me to this Steve Yegge throwback post talking about several different coding languages and why he likes/dislikes them. Why should you/I trust Steve? Well at the time of this post, he claimed to know about 30-40 languages, he maintains a very popular popular blog and he works for google. Your call.

Practice Coding

For the longest time, I've been trying to figure out ways to get better at programming. When I asked professionals they would always suggest, "read other people's code". Which is fine but can be overwhelming to a professionally inexperienced programmer. I mean whose code should I look at? What project am I interested in? How can I tell if its good or not.

Anyways, I decided to finally open up my Google Reader after a month of inactivity and see if there was anything in there to inspire to me. And to my delight, I found the most recent Coding Horror post that covered exactly what I've been trying to figure out on my own for years. Thanks Jeff!

Python Tutorial

I stumbled upon this tutorial covering python and the PDB. Seems like a good link to include on my other blog once I get that a little cleaned up.

Future Dog (Hopefully)

So I had a dog before, but at my own fault was not responsible enough to take care of it. Now that I'm more mature and married, I've been trying to find a dog that both my wife and I like.

I think a boxer is our winner. Now all I got to do is figure out how to find breeders and wait for a mild mannered, female puppy to pop out!