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Author: Rich Brown
Python libraries: requests and multithreading.dummy
Today was a two-fer: I found two interesting techniques for working with Python. I needed to test a web server, and wanted to send concurrent HTTP get requests. (The problem was that the web server was failing sporadically when hit by a browser, even though individual requests for pages always worked.) I found two libraries
Rink Rat – A Great Essay on Hockey (not for the kids)
While chatting with people who play hockey just for the pure fun of it, especially those who are no longer whippersnappers, I am amazed that hardly anyone knows about this essay from the New Yorker magazine. Charles McGrath wrote this gem for the Shouts & Murmurs column of the 4 October 1993 issue. “Rink Rat”
Winning Team, Boston BlueButton Innovation Challenge
I was a member of the team that won the “Most Likely to Succeed” award at the MedStart Hackathon at Tufts Medical School (http://tuftsmedstart.com/) Our four-member team (Bryan Bordeaux, Michelle Qi, Elaine Wu, and I) produced a tool that helps a primary care physician by listing recommended screenings for patients. This was a great event.
Digital Analytics Fundamentals from Google
I just finished Google’s “Digital Analytics Fundamentals” course at https://analyticsacademy.withgoogle.com/course. I did OK, too 🙂 The course talks about using Google Analytics to show the performance of your website. The course was a series of short (4-10 minute) videos, with a set of questions after each to let you think about what they just said. In
Upgrading to OS X 10.9 Mavericks – (No) Trouble with 5 GHz Wifi
Update: Good news! I am now able to get onto the 5GHz SSIDs. What changed? I rebooted my router, and it now seems OK. So I may have cried Wolf about this problem, and incorrectly blamed Mavericks. The problem seems to have gone away after the router reboot. Whew! I still don’t know why I got
Upgrading to OS X 10.9 Mavericks – Really long install times
Mac OS X 10.9 came out on Tuesday, and I decided to take the plunge and move my 2.3 GHz MacBook Pro to Mavericks. The price (free) is right and there are big claims for its decreased power demands. You can read John Siracusa’s opus describing all the new features over at the OS X 10.9
Switching to WordPress 3.7 beta 2
I decided to take the plunge and switch from WordPress 3.6.1 to the 3.7 beta 2 version. There’s a plugin that is supposed to make this easy – WordPress Beta Tester – but the current 0.97 version of this doesn’t seem to work. Fortunately, I found a posting on the support forum that suggests that you
Horsing around with Ghost blogging platform
I had some fun checking out the brand new Ghost blogging platform. Its claims to fame are: It’s a blogging platform that is easy to install and setup It can be customized to look the way you want It uses Markdown for text formatting, with a very sexy real-time Markdown->HTML converter built in. You type Markdown text
“Hang on a minute…”
I just ended a call from a telemarketer who was pitching some vacation deal. I just don’t do these things over the phone, so when she paused to take another breath, I said in a kind way, “Thanks for calling, but I’m not interested.” Of course, they’re (well) trained to answer objections, but I broke