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Shifting gears 15 Oct 2012 | 05:44 pm
After almost 2 years with the OpenQuake project I will be joining Rackspace as a technical cloud advocate on 01-Nov-2012. This is novel and exciting in many ways as I will have the opportunity to purs...
First experiments with golang 1 Aug 2011 | 08:44 pm
I finally found some time to look at the Go programming language (aka golang). In order to get a feeling for it I picked a random Google code jam problem and programmed it in Go. The code used in the...
EuroPython talk info 22 Jun 2011 | 04:41 am
The slides from the EuroPython talk (python & amqp) I held this morning are here. I’ll post a link to the video when it becomes available. There are two things I wanted to mention but did not get to:...
How to dual-boot a stable/experimental system with minimal breakage 30 Apr 2011 | 09:26 pm
For a couple of years now I have been using a scheme that allows me to dual-boot a stable system (for work) and an experimental system (for fun) with minimal breakage. Recent reports of people who up...
SSDs are the way to go! 12 Mar 2011 | 10:37 pm
I bought an intel X25-M SSD last week and it does make a *big* difference! It is faster, develops less noise and heat and the battery lasts longer. I am using it with a lenovo thinkpad t410 laptop ru...
What is the best way to reset a file in a git topic branch? 10 Mar 2011 | 09:26 am
Sometimes, when reviewing topic branches, I like to reset a file (to whatever it was in the master branch) and play around with it. I figured out how to do that (see below) but it’s a bit clunky. Ple...
OpenQuake is hiring in Zürich and in Pavia 4 Mar 2011 | 01:45 am
The OpenQuake project is looking to hire two Python developers (one in Zürich/Switzerland, the other in Pavia/Italy). We are a global and public project, do our development in accordance with agile p...
The world has changed 21 Feb 2011 | 06:55 am
Whether for the better or the worse is left as an exercise to the reader but it definitely has changed. The other day I was whining diffusely about the breakage of my new lenovo thinkpad t410. A day ...
Vim mappings for the win 27 Sep 2010 | 07:51 pm
I mostly work in source code hierarchies where for a given source file X.source the location of the file with the unit tests is tests/test_X.source and more often than not I need to do edit the unit t...
Tool of the year! 12 Jun 2010 | 09:53 pm
I have been suffering from the multiple clipboards “feature” under X-Windows/Gnome for quite a while and finally found a solution: parcellite. Install it, run it, right-click on the icon, select “pre...
