I had a bit of a moment earlier in getting PyDev up and running in Eclipse. Installing is easy enough through Marketplace in Helios, but when I went to open a project I was denied! Anyway, figured it out, just needed to select my interpreter. When you go to open a new python project hit the ‘Please configure an interpreter..’ … Read the remaining 45 words

Another dConstruct2010 post, this time: Brendan Dawes – Boil, Simmer, Reduce Brendan didn’t really have as structured a talk, and one wonders if perhaps he relied more on gimmicks in his slides than the message he was trying to convey. The method he calls ‘Boil, Simmer, Reduce’ is basically his three part plan in creating a product. Frankly it seems … Read the remaining 588 words

The theme of dConstruct 2010 was Design & Creativity. Marty Neumeier – The Designful Company As I’m sure you can imagine, I only made some quick notes as I was listening to the talk, so what you will find here is an amalgamation of the talk and my own thoughts. Please do not consider this as their words or even … Read the remaining 1204 words

Sometimes, for no clear reason, Eclipse’s ctrl+click function to find a methods source fails. This bugs the hell out of me, but is simple enough to fix. Unfortunately it doesn’t happen often enough for me to remember how to fix. And having to search each time with ‘just right’ keywords is also annoying. Anyway, here it is: Close Eclipse. Delete:  … Read the remaining 8 words

Hey All, I recently got a reasonable size list of blog URLs. What I wanted was to import all these into a feed reader (via OPML). There seemed to be a lack of conversion scripts for batch URL->find RSS link->feed reader import file (I may be wrong, please let me know if I am , so I made one in … Read the remaining 181 words

Over the last few weeks Mike Robinson and I have discussed and decided an SVN restructuring for improving our build and deployment processes. I would encourage you to read a bit more about that (and various other geekness) at his blog. So I’ve spent this week moving our company hosted SVN from Beanstalk to Springloops. I feel I’ve been swinging … Read the remaining 32 words