We had an outage here at eigenmagic, and as I was at a customer site I couldn’t attend to the cause until just now. We had thunderstorms here in Melbourne, and I suspected that it may have knocked out the power to the house where eigenmagic.com lives. It happened, very… Read More
Ms A. loves circuses. She spotted a suburban circus calling themselves Circus Latino has set up nearby to our house, and wanted to go. Though I can’t say I’m as endlessly fascinated by circuses as she is, I certainly do get a certain enjoyment from them, and who am I… Read More
Hooray! After waaaay too long, I’ve finally fixed up my registration with the Python Package Index and uploaded libsnmp. Version 2.0.4 is now available in the Python Cheeseshop (aka PyPI). Assuming you’ve already installed python setuptools, getting libsnmp is now as easy as: easy_install libsnmp How cool is that? For… Read More
I’ve been seeing a lot of hype about “Cloud Computing” lately, the latest being some posts over at NetApp’s Absolute Architect. Several versions of this idea have been tried before, and they never really took off as a mainstream way of doing things, but each iteration gets closer. This latest… Read More
My morning commute consists of a 30km bicycle ride. This gives me time to plan my day, and to muse on anything that happens to be running through my brain. Today I was thinking about sunglasses, and quality. You see, I have a pair of Rudy Project sunglasses for the… Read More
I love statistics. The part of me that wishes I was a rock star is very unhappy about me admitting that in public, but there it is. Of course, the cool kids are calling it analytics these days, but it’s still statistics. It’s a bunch of numbers that can tell… Read More
I’ve been looking over my referrals data, trying to work out what causes people to discover this blog, and there seems to be two things that drive traffic to your site: Being topical, and being authoritative. Neither of these things are really all that surprising when you think about it.… Read More
There’s one surefire way to determine if someone is a great programmer, or if they are merely good: their attitude towards automated testing. In fact, their attitude towards testing will tell you a lot about their attitude towards programming, design, project planning, almost every other aspect of a technical project.… Read More
I’ve been reading a few books simultaneously lately, and there’s a common theme that I’ve long believed in, but it’s gratifying that it’s a) been noticed by other people, and b) was noticed a long time ago: companies are run by people. It’s a central theme in Porter’s Competitive Strategy.… Read More
It’s obvious, but if you don’t update your blog often, no one will read it. Looking at my Google Analytics data, it’s pretty obvious that when I write something, people get notified about it, and they come and read it. If you want to increase your readership, write more. I’ve… Read More
