Blog Posts

• 16 Jan 2013 » Python itertools.groupby : a clearer example
• 27 Jul 2012 » Undo last git commit / merge
• 09 May 2012 » Efficiently finding large (size and dimension) images
• 27 Feb 2012 » Hands On With the BlackBerry Playbook: Actually Quite Nice
• 23 Feb 2012 » SFTP: Specifying Port, SSH key
• 15 Feb 2012 » Student Loans Are Killing Entrepreneurship
• 11 Jan 2012 » How To Dynamically Import Python Modules
• 15 Nov 2011 » How To Scan Multiple Pages Into a Single PDF on OS X
• 15 Aug 2011 » Titanium Studio: How To View Android Log Messages
• 27 Jul 2011 » Easy way to view cookies in Chrome
• 04 Mar 2011 » Uniforms
• 08 Dec 2010 » Future of Work and New Dial Tones
• 29 Nov 2010 » Generating static html from markdown in python
• 19 Nov 2010 » Retention Bonuses Don’t Work
• 08 Nov 2010 » mo.com Interviews Me
• 29 Oct 2010 » How To Run A Command On Multiple Linux Boxes
• 23 Jul 2010 » Art
• 04 Mar 2010 » How To Be A Good Participant On A Panel: Disagree
• 19 Feb 2010 » Django: Using The Permission System
• 31 Jan 2010 » Hyper Competitive Sleep Losing Entrepreneurs?
• 24 Jan 2010 » Django-mptt: Tree Storage in Django: A Brief Overview
• 23 Jan 2010 » Fantastic Mr. Fox: See It
• 09 Jan 2010 » Feels Like A New Stage Of The Web
• 08 Jan 2010 » Move Files Older Than X Days To Another Directory
• 15 Nov 2009 » How To List Files In A Package in Ubuntu
• 28 Oct 2009 » How To Enable Vi Syntax Highlighting In Ubuntu
• 17 Oct 2009 » The Power of Stories In Shaping Views of Cultures
• 11 Oct 2009 » How Interviewing Job Applicants Has Changed
• 11 Oct 2009 » Eclipse + PyDev : I Recommend It
• 28 Sep 2009 » Yahoo Mail WTF?!
• 16 Feb 2009 » What Should I Read Next?
• 13 Feb 2009 » Ctrl-Q, My New Favorite Eclipse Hotkey
• 13 Feb 2009 » Another Python Convert
• 03 Feb 2009 » San Jose San Fran Next Week, Drop Me A Line If You Want To Meet
• 01 Feb 2009 » On Concurrency, Threads, and Python
• 25 Jan 2009 » Hackintosh Accomplished
• 25 Jan 2009 » Facebook: Nice Place To Visit, But I Wouldn’t Want To Live There
• 25 Jan 2009 » Books Cannot Be Owned
• 20 Jan 2009 » Protect The Constitution Of The United States
• 19 Jan 2009 » Queueing Benefits
• 13 Jan 2009 » Parandism: Two Man Job
• 04 Jan 2009 » San Diego Hadoop User Group Starting
• 14 Dec 2008 » Obama Logo Design
• 20 Nov 2008 » Cloud Computing Hadoop Slides
• 18 Nov 2008 » Blogs Are Becoming Traditional Magazines
• 24 Oct 2008 » Python Dot Notation Dictionary Access
• 22 Oct 2008 » Python Scripts For Dumping Oracle Data And Loading Onto Hadoop DFS
• 20 Oct 2008 » GMail Contact Groups: Add By Tag / Search
• 16 Oct 2008 » Yahoo Live Surprisingly Good
• 16 Oct 2008 » RESTful URL Design For Search And Collections
• 15 Oct 2008 » Small Biz Minimal CRM Thoughts
• 15 Oct 2008 » Python Script For Finding And Removing Duplicate Files
• 15 Oct 2008 » Fremium Works If You Do It Right
• 13 Oct 2008 » Access Python Dictionary Keys As Properties
• 12 Oct 2008 » UCSD Hack Week: I’ll Be There
• 12 Oct 2008 » Setting Up Beanstalkd on Ubuntu for Python
• 12 Oct 2008 » Beanstalkd / Python Basic Tutorial
• 10 Oct 2008 » Thankful For The Stupidity of Virus Authors
• 10 Oct 2008 » Back Up No More?
• 09 Oct 2008 » Stackoverflow: Surprisingly Good Source of Technical Answers
• 07 Oct 2008 » The Big Picture Adopts ReaderScroll Navigation
• 02 Oct 2008 » Nookiller
• 02 Oct 2008 » Depressed
• 24 Sep 2008 » Happy: Hadoop with Python (Jython)
• 22 Sep 2008 » Best Way To Automatically Convert Flickr Images to FaceBook Albums?
• 17 Sep 2008 » Productivity Tip: Forget The Power Cord
• 15 Sep 2008 » Live Maps Rocks
• 15 Sep 2008 » Disco: Erlang/Python Based Map-Reduce
• 09 Sep 2008 » Already Using Chrome Regularly
• 05 Sep 2008 » Drizzle: MySQL Based Slim / Cloud-Oriented DB
• 04 Sep 2008 » Python Generator Expressions
• 02 Sep 2008 » Trying Google Chrome, So Far So Good
• 01 Sep 2008 » Javascript Inheritance
• 01 Sep 2008 » Google Chrome: Based on WebKit instead of Mozilla
• 27 Aug 2008 » Being Smarter About Car Repair
• 25 Aug 2008 » Three
• 25 Aug 2008 » Google Reader Style Hotkeys For Image Viewing
• 23 Aug 2008 » Startup VP Technology / CTO Opportunites
• 22 Aug 2008 » TraceMonkey: It’s A Big Deal
• 22 Aug 2008 » Terrorists: There Is No Profile
• 21 Aug 2008 » Awesome
• 18 Aug 2008 » Sickening Olympic Coverage
• 18 Aug 2008 » A Beautiful Python Twitter API
• 17 Aug 2008 » Trying Mercurial
• 17 Aug 2008 » Sweet Sleep, Part Deux
• 16 Aug 2008 » Amazing Video Enhancement / Transformation Technique
• 18 Jul 2008 » The Importance of Lyrics
• 18 Jul 2008 » That’s How I Roll, MoFo
• 18 Jul 2008 » Taste Vectors: OpenTaste
• 15 Jul 2008 » Parsing (Top-Down) in Python
• 14 Jul 2008 » iPhone’s Weaknesses As a Business Phone
• 14 Jul 2008 » Gmail Magic Speed-up Button Found
• 14 Jul 2008 » Django: Retrieving Backward Related Objects
• 13 Jul 2008 » BlackBerry + Decent Browser = iPhone Killer
• 11 Jul 2008 » Windows/Eclipse/FireFox Slowdown Annoyance
• 11 Jul 2008 » Marry A Virgin In The Morning…
• 08 Jul 2008 » Shopping For Broadband Access Card / Service
• 08 Jul 2008 » jQuery serializeArray: Why Not An Associative Array?
• 08 Jul 2008 » Cross-Language Data Serialization and Exchange
• 08 Jul 2008 » Black Nerds
• 07 Jul 2008 » In Bruges: Not Too Bad
• 03 Jul 2008 » Javascript Is The Guy With The Thing
• 02 Jul 2008 » Stereotyping Germany
• 02 Jul 2008 » Put A Queue In Your Standard Toolkit
• 30 Jun 2008 » Windows Should Include Virtual Machines For Virus Protection
• 27 Jun 2008 » The Performance Penalty of Virtualization
• 27 Jun 2008 » D Lazy Evaluation Prettyness
• 26 Jun 2008 » OpenID for Email Verification?
• 23 Jun 2008 » Time Warner Discontinues Usenet
• 22 Jun 2008 » Russia Wins!
• 19 Jun 2008 » Pig (Hadoop) Commands And Sample Results
• 18 Jun 2008 » iTunes SUCKS
• 16 Jun 2008 » Turtles Can Fly: See It
• 16 Jun 2008 » All Internal Awards / Chachkis Should be Cups
• 11 Jun 2008 » Using Django Signals To Watch For Changes To Instances
• 11 Jun 2008 » Static Typing and Breath Mints
• 11 Jun 2008 » Django+MySQL: How To Fix Unicode (aka Mysterious Question Marks)
• 03 Jun 2008 » Your Choice of University Is Key, Short Version
• 03 Jun 2008 » The Hamburger Theory of Threads and Processes
• 03 Jun 2008 » On The Value of Lurkers
• 03 Jun 2008 » How To Unlock The BlackBerry Pearl
• 03 Jun 2008 » Babies Eating Ants
• 31 May 2008 » Sex and the City Second Hand Review
• 30 May 2008 » Running Shell Scripts from Python
• 28 May 2008 » Multi-Process vs. Multi-Threaded Python Performance
• 22 May 2008 » Write The Damned Email
• 20 May 2008 » MMA
• 19 May 2008 » Javascript Array Deferencing?
• 17 May 2008 » Football
• 13 May 2008 » Flickr Capacity Planning Presentation
• 12 May 2008 » Kids’ Book Template
• 07 May 2008 » How To Dynamically Select Part of a jQuery Call Chain
• 06 May 2008 » Handy Javascript Scoping Trick
• 05 May 2008 » Google Reader Techno Music Attack?
• 03 May 2008 » The Case For Teaching Calculus Early
• 03 May 2008 » Son Of A …
• 01 May 2008 » What Are You Using for Contact Management?
• 01 May 2008 » Twitter In Microcosm
• 01 May 2008 » How Do You Design Sites for Blackberry?
• 30 Apr 2008 » Buzzword Moment
• 29 Apr 2008 » Twitter Use On The Rise in Iran?
• 29 Apr 2008 » Pimp My Minivan
• 28 Apr 2008 » America’s Equipment Obssession
• 17 Apr 2008 » Minimal-Identifying-Subset Keyword Based Navigation
• 16 Apr 2008 » HTML ID Syntax
• 12 Apr 2008 » There Will Be Blood: Surprisingly Good
• 09 Apr 2008 » University Engineering Optimization Function
• 09 Apr 2008 » Hadoop Is the Linux of Data Processing
• 07 Apr 2008 » Engineering Skills For The Future
• 05 Apr 2008 » Internet Addiction?
• 04 Apr 2008 » Writing Good
• 28 Mar 2008 » Ubuntu For Your Momma
• 27 Mar 2008 » Had To Happen
• 25 Mar 2008 » Hadoop Summit Notes
• 24 Mar 2008 » Finally Bought An iPhone
• 23 Mar 2008 » Unit Test Heaven
• 21 Mar 2008 » Neighbourhood Walking
• 15 Mar 2008 » iPhone on US T-Mobile
• 14 Mar 2008 » The Nose of Your Uncle
• 13 Mar 2008 » Your Choice of University Is Key
• 12 Mar 2008 » Moments of Clarity
• 11 Mar 2008 » Twiddla: Shared Online White-boarding
• 06 Mar 2008 » Wasted Effort or Brilliant Outcome?
• 06 Mar 2008 » SMS Message Bankruptcy
• 06 Mar 2008 » Bug Labs: Good Stuff
• 05 Mar 2008 » Smell Like a Bear
• 05 Mar 2008 » Fire Eagle Invites Available
• 03 Mar 2008 » MemCache as a General Protocol
• 26 Feb 2008 » Starling in Python?
• 16 Feb 2008 » Mille Fleurs: Disappointed
• 11 Feb 2008 » Parsing and Normalizing Dates with Timezones in Python
• 10 Feb 2008 » Jumping on the Obama Bandwagon
• 08 Feb 2008 » Bella: See It
• 04 Feb 2008 » No Country For Old Men: See it
• 04 Feb 2008 » Map/Reduce (Hadoop) First Impressions
• 22 Jan 2008 » Shrek The Third for Wii: Recommended
• 17 Jan 2008 » The Problem with DSLs
• 17 Jan 2008 » Facebook’s Spam Problem
• 17 Jan 2008 » Attorney in the Making
• 18 Sep 2007 » JavaScript: The Most Implemented Language?
• 17 Sep 2007 » Ideal Startup Space = Large Fishbowl
• 16 Sep 2007 » Where Are the Python/Ruby/etc Messaging Systems?
• 13 Sep 2007 » Telepresence: I’m a Believer
• 19 Mar 2007 » Jott: Great Phone Transcription Service
• 15 Mar 2007 » MacBook Pro: First Impressions
• 12 Mar 2007 » Pursuit of Happyness: It’s an Indian Movie
• 03 Mar 2007 » My First (Yahoo!) Pipe: Fatwallet Deal Watcher
• 08 Dec 2006 » Wiimote Windows Drivers and Hacks are Here!
• 08 Dec 2006 » Google Reader interface everywhere
• 07 Dec 2006 » Yahoo Answers works surprisingly well
• 30 Nov 2006 » Minimal Python HTTP Dispatch Server: simpledispatch
• 21 Nov 2006 » Python JMS Equivalent?
• 13 Nov 2006 » Setting up pageant for password-less login
• 06 Nov 2006 » Django Book And The Future of Publishing
• 03 Nov 2006 » Evangelical Pastor Buys Acid From Male Prostitute, Throws it Away , Doesn’t Sleep With Him
• 02 Nov 2006 » SOA is not complex. You are just dumb.
• 02 Nov 2006 » Experiences with DabbleDB?
• 31 Oct 2006 » Youth and Romance in Iran
• 27 Oct 2006 » San Diego Housing Market Declines
• 25 Oct 2006 » How To Be Happier: Synthesize Happiness
• 24 Oct 2006 » Leaving Bloglines for Google Reader
• 24 Jul 2005 » New Security Mechanism Makes Air Travel Less Safe
• 21 Jul 2005 » On RSS/Atom replacing SOAP
• 21 Jul 2005 » Abolish XML Namespaces
• 17 Jul 2005 » The Soft Minded Man Always Fears Change
• 17 Jul 2005 » Real World Performance: LiveJournal
• 16 Jul 2005 » More Tagging
• 14 Jul 2005 » Generalized Tagging Tool
• 13 Jul 2005 » Technorati after Google
• 13 Jul 2005 » Going Ape Over Fairness
• 05 Jul 2005 » AJAX as Prototyping Tool
• 02 Jul 2005 » Tech innovation driven by immigrants
• 11 Apr 2005 » T-Mobile Sidekick II Phone Review
• 05 Apr 2005 » Sin City: Go See It
• 05 Apr 2005 » Server crash, dead disk!
• 03 Apr 2005 » A Russian Beauty (Nabokov)
• 01 Apr 2005 » Comment Spam! Be Gone
• 29 Mar 2005 » SOAP over JMS: No Such Thing
• 23 Mar 2005 » Plugging back into academia
• 15 Mar 2005 » The Demise of SOAP
• 13 Mar 2005 » Norm’s Service Description Language
• 11 Mar 2005 » Simple Recipe for Debugging Web Services
• 10 Mar 2005 » Taste Vectors: Own, Share Your Tastes via XML
• 10 Mar 2005 » Movie Review: Ondskan (Evil)
• 08 Mar 2005 » Movie Review: The Machinist
• 04 Mar 2005 » XML Namespaces must die
• 04 Mar 2005 » Wiki-like Blog
• 04 Mar 2005 » Kung Fu Hustle: Greatest Movie Ever Made
• 04 Mar 2005 » Jimmy Kimmel: Unncessary Censorship
• 03 Mar 2005 » The Smart Marketing People are at Apple
• 02 Mar 2005 » I Blog
• 19 May 2004 » And We’re Back