The book The Psychology of Computer Programming by Gerald M. Weinberg has been on my wish list for a while, ever since reading the cathedral & the bazaar by Eric S. Raymond, in which he talks about how working using the open source approach can not only work on ...
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After recently purchasing a Busch & Müller dymotec 6 dynamo, I found the noise level increased dramatically during wet weather. Going from a low hum in the dry to a higher pitch tone in wet weather.
Initially I thought this could be down to the rubber roller slipping against the tyre ...
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After visiting Berlin recently I noticed how many bikes used dynamos and liked the idea of a fixed front light powered by a dynamo.
The thought of not having to carry spare battries and the fact that my battery powered front light needed replacement anyway, I decided to try out ...
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After using the awesome window manager for the last few years, I’ve switched over to a new tiling window manger i3 - after trying it out, I’ve now completely switched over and really like the ease of use and increased functionality it provides.
Tiling window managers allow me to ...
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Another way to rotate by arbitrary values.
You can in python 2.x - just str.encode(“rot13”) - but for other rotations you could use the following (for ascii):
from string import ascii_uppercase as uc, ascii_lowercase as lc, maketrans
letters = uc + lc
rotate = 17 # ROT17
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I went to a workshop last night on TDD (Test Driven Development) using django and selenium, which was given by Harry Percival. It was hosted at skills matter exchange in London and there was free beer and pizza…which was an unexpected bonus!
There must have been around 35 attendees ...
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There seems to be a lot of resentment in regards to Ubuntu desktops decision to switch to unity as the default window manager in linux. The comments by Mark Shuttleworth are interesting:
“I admire and respect the fact that you can make free software do exactly what you want - that ...read more
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