Archive for March, 2008

I’m back!

Posted by chad on March 18, 2008 under general

After a two-plus year hiatus, I’m back on the Web. I decided it was time to start playing around on the Web again, and there are some Web-mapping things I’d like to toy around with, so I figured, what the hell, why not go with another WordPress install? So far so good; I was even able to hack up the MySQL dump file from my last blog (greasyvalley.com) and load those posts into this database (although there is ALOT of cleanup that needs to be done on those old posts). WordPress is better than ever.

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IPython - first thoughts

Posted by chad on March 16, 2008 under general

After I got back from the ESRI PUG a few weeks ago, I installed and started playing around with IPython. I gave a talk at the PUG, and afterwards met a guy who told me I had to try it. Boy was he right. IPython is worth its weight in gold just on the surface for its color-coding of text and history access (hit the up arrow key to get the previous commands, like at the DOS prompt). Another gem is that you can CTRL-C code from your editor and CTRL-V it into the IPython prompt - nice. I plan on playing around with this some more, and need to install it on my Mac as well - after the impending Leopard upgrade I need to do.

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