Nov 13, 2006
Here I was thinking that my old TTC map was only helping a few dozen people a day. In goes my updated map and up go my visits by several hundred per day. It turns out that I was closing … Read more
Nov 13, 2006
As with my old subway map, the most difficult parts of creating the new map didn’t involve any programming. The hardest and most time-consuming part by far was cleaning the TTC ride guide and projecting it onto … Read more
Nov 11, 2006
About a year ago I played around with the Google Maps API and created a map containing the TTC subway system. It wasn’t intended to be all that useful as the TTC’s own map contains much more information. Still, that didn’t stop my map from … Read more
Oct 19, 2006
I’m writing this post from within TextMate. It’s a pretty keen editor … not sure if it’s worth the €39 to me. It’s certainly better than editing from within WordPress.
It’s funny how Mac OS has made me expect so much more from my … Read more
Oct 18, 2006
I’ve moved my blog to another hosting service and have migrated all my posts to WordPress. Hopefully there are no problems, but if you notice any errors or missing pages please let me know.
Update: Apparently the hosting service I am using has problems with category URLs. I have … Read more
LifeHacker lists two techniques to perfect a french press brew: 1) Don’t cover the press during the brew, and 2) skim the grounds off the top before pressing. I don’t usually cover the press, but I have been known to stir the grinds so they don’t collect at the top, unbrewed. A comment in the … Read more
The website txt2re.com offers to take the headache out of regular expressions. Enter your text, flag the portions you want to extract, and txt2re spits out a regular expression to match, in Perl, Python, JavaScript variants and more.
This Python reader for SPSS .sav files only works on Windows as it requires a DLL.