Thoughts about Software, Networking, and Life
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 …
Python libraries: requests and multithreading.dummy Read MoreWhile 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 …
Rink Rat – A Great Essay on Hockey (not for the kids) Read MoreI 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 …
Winning Team, Boston BlueButton Innovation Challenge Read MoreI 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 …
Digital Analytics Fundamentals from Google Read MoreUpdate: 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 …
Upgrading to OS X 10.9 Mavericks – (No) Trouble with 5 GHz Wifi Read MoreMac 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 …
Upgrading to OS X 10.9 Mavericks – Really long install times Read MoreI 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 …
Switching to WordPress 3.7 beta 2 Read MoreI 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 …
Horsing around with Ghost blogging platform Read MoreI 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 …
“Hang on a minute…” Read MoreI’ve been playing with the Fargo blogging software from Dave Winer at Scripting.com It puts your blog info into an S3 bucket, then has links to WordPress, so that you can …
Post another thought from Fargo Read More