Fischer Lab: 2009

Friday, October 2, 2009

Google Wave Samples Gallery - Google Code

Google Wave Samples Gallery - Google Code

useful bookmark

Friday, September 18, 2009

Finally a complete new replacement for kf-compute1

This is the third time we have to replace kf-compute1. First two times iX systems only replaced the RAM and the motherboard and both times the system crashed at some point so we had to sent it back again and again. Now they sent us a completely new server with a new and better micro (nice!). Let's see if this one is the last one.
Replacing one server (Set of photos)

Friday, September 4, 2009

University of Utah Vice President for Research Company Supply Centers & Freezer Programs

Tuesday, May 19, 2009

Learning to program in python

Thanks xkcd for the cartoon.

Here is a great book for non-programmers or beginning programmers: Learn to Program Using Python. It is quite out of date however, being stuck at python version 1.5. As of this writing python 3 has been released, but not widely adopted; python versions 2.4-2.6 are commonly used. Everything in the book still works in 2.x, but there have been a lot of improvements in the language that you won't hear about in the book.

However Learning to program is the book's companion web site and it is rather more up to date It also includes some other languages that suck more than python along side the python examples. This clutters it up. It is available as an on-line tutorial or in PDF format.