Author Archives: Peter

My latest batch of Git resources

Posted on November 22, 2011 by Peter

Finally getting serious about learning and using Git, so, to clean out my tabs, here’s what I’m looking at right now: Learn.Github Pro Git: Professional Version Control Learning Git from an Amateur’s Perspective | DrupalEasy Understanding Git Conceptually Tower Is … Continue reading →

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Some links of special interest to me

Posted on November 22, 2011 by Peter

These links will prove useful in the future. And may be interesting to others, so here goes: podblog.blogs.hopkinsmedicine.org/2011/07/01/txt2stop/ www.ctru.auckland.ac.nz/index.php/news-a-events/325-ctru-plays-leading-role-in-ground-breaking-text-messaging-smoking-cessation-trial www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(11)60701-0/abstract www.twilio.com/try-twilio?home-page http://www.reqall.com/about http://toodo.com/explore/lists http://www.followup.cc/

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Using and learning Git

Posted on March 10, 2011 by Peter

Any time you want to be able to keep track of all the aspects of a project, particularly to be able to roll back the state of a set of files to a previous version, you want to use version … Continue reading →

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Using Ruby to learn to program

Posted on March 8, 2011 by Peter

I got interested in the possibility of learning Ruby after seeing Ruby for Kids: teach programming by writing games in Ruby on Reddit last month. I’m still not “ready” to dive in, but I did want to line up a … Continue reading →

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Really? We’re still manually running system diagnostics, Microsoft?

Posted on March 4, 2011 by Peter

Ran across this item from the NYT: Tip of the Week: Running Windows Diagnostics. I guess it’s great that you can run a diagnostic tool whenever you want in Windows, but come on: is it really necessary to tell users, … Continue reading →

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Emacs Artist Mode

Posted on March 2, 2011 by Peter

Emacs really is quite an extraordinary program, and there are many who have used it extensively over many years. There’s a lot of cool things that have been invented to take advantage of the Emacs environment. For example, there’s this: … Continue reading →

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More resources for learning Python

Posted on February 13, 2011 by Peter

I keep turning up more stuff; some better than others. This is just a list of the most recent ones: DaniWeb Python Forum. Haven’t explored this much yet, but it looks like a reasonable starting point. Learn Python the Hard … Continue reading →

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More Emacs Stuff

Posted on February 13, 2011 by Peter

I’ve been diving back into Emacs recently, since discovering that there’s a really useful implementation for Mac OS X, Aquamacs, that not only does all the Emacs-y things I fell in love with so many years ago, but also manages … Continue reading →

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Man as Industrial Palace

Posted on February 13, 2011 by Peter

Der Mensch als Industriepalast [Man as Industrial Palace], a poster by Fritz Kahn. Amazing the degree to which this single image has resonated (and continues to resonate) in our culture. The image is part of the Dream Anatomy website published … Continue reading →

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Dropbox and Cloud-related applications

Posted on January 18, 2011 by Peter

Dropbox is not the first network application for storing your data in the “cloud”–that’s been relatively easy to do for decades, using UNIX networking tools–but it does seem to be the first to gain much traction outside the *NIX sysadmin … Continue reading →

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