Ivan Idris's Blog, page 15
March 15, 2013
RSS Therapy
I don’t know how you are coping with the demise of Google Reader, but I am somewhere between the denial and negotation phase. We need closure and proper alternatives for our relationship with our beloved Google Reader. I am trying … Continue reading →
March 14, 2013
Alternatives for Google Reader
A million voices cried out yesterday. No more Google Reader after July 1st. How dare they retire Google Reader? I am not a heavy user myself. I am only subscribed to a few thousand RSS feeds and those are mostly … Continue reading →
March 13, 2013
John Hunter Memorial Fund
I have been asked to mention the John Hunter Memorial Fund. John Hunter is the author of the famous Matplotlib open source Python plotting library. Beside basic plotting Matplotlib can do LaTeX style formatting of text in plots, 3D plots, … Continue reading →
March 12, 2013
Should everyone learn to code?
No. Why not? Well, first there is no need for that and not enough jobs anyway. Even if there were enough jobs, if more people started programming due to supply and demand, coding would become less “special”. You know what … Continue reading →
March 11, 2013
On the Importance of Typing
I frequently see people looking at their keyboard while typing, then looking up at the screen and down again. It makes me want to smile, but I was once like these people – completely ignorant of all the benefits of … Continue reading →
March 10, 2013
Tweets for March Ten, 2013
Experimenting with Storify. I hope you like it! Today various tweets about scraping Twitter, writing a simple Twitter bot, faster than light experiment result and growing teeth from gum cells. View the story “Tweets for March 10 2013″ on Storify
February 17, 2013
Review of the Dilbert Principle
“The Dilbert Principle” by Scott Adams is one of the best business books ever written. The book is slightly outdated. TQM should probably replaced by Agile or similar. However, the text is illustrated with many funny Dilbert comics. The book … Continue reading →
February 9, 2013
Review of the X-files
“X-files Fight the Future” is a book based on the movie with the same name. A global conspiracy tries to coverup the planned colonization of Earth by aliens. The aliens were already there before pre-historic times. They left a virus … Continue reading →
February 3, 2013
Review of Cobweb
Many people wrote reviews of NumPy Cookbook, so I decided to review books I have read myself. I happen to like science fiction and books by Neal Stephenson. This review is about “Cobweb” written by Neal Stephenson and Frederick George. … Continue reading →
January 13, 2013
Sharpen the Command Line Saw for maximum productivity
“Perfer et obdura; dolor hic tibi proderit olim.” Be patient and tough; some day this pain will be useful to you. The sharpening of saws will continue in the year 2013 or year 1 according to the Mayan calendar. Saws … Continue reading →
