Technical Enthusiasm Isn't All Bad
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I've read some things recently about choosing the right tool for the job, from a technology and programming language perspective. Most recently it was a post by Jeremy Bowers.
In it, he pokes at Python's weaknesses, but he isn't really writing about Python (as he says …
Raspberry Pi Pico Apology Button
When playing Call of Duty, I like "hardcore" mode, where a bullet or two is enough to send someone off to respawn land rather than having to empty half a clip. That mode also allows for friendly fire, which is a challenge. I appreciate that the game starts reflecting damage …
My Best Side Project
After a few years working on it, I can say that the "magic mirror" I built with my son has been the best for-fun side project I've ever done. When I was describing the idea, my wife was hesitant about letting me hang it on the wall -- mostly due to …
Notable for Note Taking
I recently started using Notable for my software development notes. It is an Electron app that lets you write your notes as Markdown. It is a little light on features currently, but that can be a good thing.
I've used Microsoft OneNote for a long time. There are a …
Eric's Toolset
These are some of my favorite software utilities for development and life in general. Everything listed here is free.
PyCharm Community Edition (JetBrains) - A feature-rich IDE and debugger for Python built on the IntelliJ platform, with the free community edition having arrived in 2013.
Notepad2 (Florian Balmer) - This …
Clean HTML from Microsoft Word: Rube Goldberg Method
Wouldn't it be nice to be able to save nice clean HTML from Microsoft Word? Here's a way that is only slightly convoluted.
If you use the "Web Page, Filtered" option from Word, you get buried in piles of CSS cruft, but as noted here, you can use the Publish …
Alert Camera Gadget
Download Gadget
Version 0.8.0 (beta)
26 Sep 2012
Around 74 KB
The Alert Camera Gadget lets you keep an eye on your Logitech Alert cameras by rotating through snapshots (still images) from all the cameras associated with your account. This gadget is not provided by or supported …
Cipher Suite for webOS
My son turns 14 this month, but we still have bedtime stories. Currently, the bedtime story is Simon Singh's The Code Book. While reading the description of the Vigenére cipher, I started to think about how I'd code up an implementation, and that led to my first webOS application. Cipher …
Cipher Suite - Classic ciphers for webOS
Cipher Suite is now available in the official Palm App Catalog.
Photo Drag 'n Shrink - Quick photo resizer for Windows
Photo Drag 'n Shrink makes it easy to resize images so that they take up less space and can be transferred quicker.
DragShrink.exe
Version 1.0
11 Nov 2009
Around 49 KB
This application depends on the Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0, which can be obtained through Windows …