Monthly Archives: July 2009

Pandora: Change how you listen to music

I don’t normally post on non-technical topics, but Pandora has been such a wonderful addition to my technological experience that I felt it pertinent to share here. In case you haven’t heard of it, Pandora is a service that allows … Continue reading

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Light at the end of the carpal tunnel: snippets in vim with snipMate

I’ve tried a number of snippet plugins for vim, many claiming more and less feature parity with the beloved TextMate. I started using snipMate today, and it is by far my favorite. If you haven’t seen TextMate-like snippets in action, … Continue reading

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Pulling data into Excel from web queries

Excel 2007 is an amazing tool. I normally find Microsoft’s software unintuitive, annoying, and slow. But for quick numeric analysis tasks or advanced reporting, Excel can do amazing things. Before utilizing all this reporting and analytical firepower, you have to … Continue reading

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Improved irb configuration

As applies to most new tools I start to use, the time in which I’ve started to learn Ruby has included a fair amount of time improving my general working environment, to make it more suited to the use of … Continue reading

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Expanding your desktop empire with Synergy

It’s not much fun filling your desk with computers if you have to add in a keyboard and mouse for each one. Far cooler would be a single keyboard and mouse for any number of screens you can fit into … Continue reading

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