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Bye Matlab, hello Python, thanks Sage
For the past two months or so, I’ve been slowly migrating my scientific workflow (that’s a fancy way of saying “my chaotic data hacking”) from Matlab ((R) (TM) (C)) to Python. The results are...
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Finally: Firefox 3 brings inline PDFs on mac
It took a while. Doesn’t want to be installed on minefield builds, though (via MacOSXHints).
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Weird utf-8 bug in QuickLook: it’s the EA
A while ago, I noticed a weird bug affecting the way QuickLook on Leopard showed characters with french accents, while being careful to save in UTF-8 from TextMate: TM’s on left, QL on the right. Unix...
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Python for Science on Mac: Enthought Python Distribution
As a sort-of follow-up to my own post praising SAGE as an all-in-one Python distribution including tons of science goodies, I want to also point out that the Enthought Python Distribution is now...
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Python in Science proceedings
The proceedings for Scipy2008 (ie the 7th Python in Science conference) are now online. It would be worth mentioning for the State of Scipy article alone, but there’s tons of nifty up-to-date...
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Enthought Python Distribution, now with basemap
A new beta 2 of the Enthought Python Distribution has been released. It includes updates to the latest versions of wxPython (2.8.7.1), VTK (5.2), IPython (0.9.1), matplotlib (0.98.3), ETS (3.0.2) and...
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My new favorite font
Anonymous. Looks good anti-aliased or not, at various sizes. Very readable, and a lot of personality – a nice change of air from Deja Vu/Inconsolata.
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finally
I haven’t seen this reported anywhere, and it’s not really surprising since it will affect only a minority of Mac users, but here goes: In Snow Leopard, french locale, the “Movies” folder will be...
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New in Snow Leopard: Minimize windows to App icon and Expose
dock preferences screenshot Another thing I haven’t seen (yet) mentioned anywhere… In the last snow leopard build (10a394), the new “dock+expose” feature is enabled, and a new related option has...
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indefinite hiatus
As history suggests, this blog might never be updated again. I’ll leave it open for archeological purposes, and because some posts seem to be actually useful for some people: Scientific Python for all:...
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Evernote? NOW?
Back story For longer than I can remember I have adopted the position that 1) notes should be in ASCII: universal, future-proof, small files and 2) markdown syntax should provide more than enough...
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