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Jupyter on Windows with Chocolatey
Install Python This is a quick post (and will probably be outdated quickly), but it took me a while to get it correct. I wanted to install Jupyter on Windows. The recommeded route is via Anaconda but I like to use Chocolatey the Windows package manager as much as possible. I used Chocolatey to install…
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Lock Stock Pomodoros
I give you http://pom.ianchanning.com. Pomodoros with a Lock Stock film quote at the end of each one. I’m a little obsessive about timers (see bottom) and the other pomodoro timers I’ve tried failed on different counts. I’ve tried to cram everything I find useful about a timer. Firstly spacebar to start/stop. The timer should be…
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Scrum unsucked
[Photo credit: darkmatter] I’ve been reading into Scrum closer recently and it just seems like a horrible corruption of an inspirational idea, that could much more easily be integrated into normal project practices. Agile I love the agile principles. I’m repeating them here for my own benefit, I like a good list as much as…
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Second hand bicycles
In response to a blog post ‘Why I keep fixing my bike‘ about the risks of buying a dodgy second hand bike, I wrote the following comment. It’s something I’m quite passionate about so worth storing on my own blog… I have bought at least 7 bikes second hand through either ebay or gumtree all…
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Installing Node.js on Windows 8
Node comes with an installer, but I hit a couple of bugs that knackered my initial attempts to call either node or npm. I followed the installation instructions trying to run a command for the first time and got ‘node’ is not recognized as an internal or external command. For anyone else with the same…
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rebeccapurple
This site’s background is rebeccapurple, its based on the memory of Eric Meyer’s daughter. I have a daughter of two, so reading his tales of anguish are deeply moving.
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One woman can’t have a baby in nine months
Originally posted on A billion monkeys can't be wrong: As all software developers know, nine women can’t have a baby in a month. Or in Fred Brooks’s more elegant phrasing: “The bearing of a child takes nine months, no matter how many women are assigned.” (The Mythical Man Month, p. 17) The point, of course,…
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On depression, privilege, and online activism
On depression, privilege, and online activism Well said…
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ntwdblib download
For years I have had problems running the mssql driver. Its getting phased out – i.e. it doesn’t work with PHP 5.3 but if you have to support older applications then you need to use the mssql driver. The problem is, is that the default installation of PHP 5.2 (currently PHP 5.2.17) which you can…
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