Recently at work I needed to produce a pie chart for some data that I had to crawl through using basic scripting. Pulling out the numbers, sorting, filtering, etc., was all tasks that I'm used to doing, but for graphing I normally use Gnuplot. But, Gnuplot can't do pie charts …
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I like flight simulators. I've played all of the good ones, Flightgear is an open-source flight simulator that isn't bad, and is steadily getting better with every release. While it is available to run on Mac, there's no way to calibrate the Joystick due to a lack of caring on …
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Currently our upstairs TV has a raspberry pi attached to it. It's running the basic Raspbian distribution, based on Debian Linux. I'm using it for development as well as for a media center at the moment, so I'm not using RaspBMC, I'm going to order another one has a dedicated …
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I'm reading Jim Butcher's "Cold Days", his latest installment in the Dresden Files, and I felt the need to share this quote:
read moreSo, ladies, if you ever have some conversation with your boyfriend or husband or brother or male friend, and you are telling him something perfectly obvious, and he …
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A while back I needed a way to check the weather forecast, simply, from a terminal, as is the preference of most Unix geeks like me. Being a Canadian, I'm not interested in the Weather Channel as much as the Environment Canada data. Thankfully, they do publish an RSS feed …
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Hi again. I already went into the basics of OAuth in a previous post, and alluded to the signatures being the hard part of the implementation. I'm using a python-oauth module for the client, but for the server, I decided to implement my own in Perl and Mojolicious, since I …
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So, I'm still reading O'Rielly's 21st Century C. I know, too many books on the go and I read slowly, and not often enough. I'm going through the section on GNU autotools, which I've never been a heavy user of, albiet I'm a heavy consumer of. I just don't spend …
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Being a Linux user, I'm used to a fairly standard set of tools on my command-line. On OS X, it's essentially BSD UNIX underneath, which I have had some experience with thanks to FreeBSD. The environment is very similar, but not identical, and on FreeBSD, you quickly find yourself using …
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