Hellz yea, I’m a freaking engineer (sounds more hilarious in my head then it reads). Now who the hell wouldn’t want to be an engineer? Fellow PyLady, Julia Grace, asked about my expectations of being an engineer versus what I actually experienced. TL;DR: It’s awesome. Here’s the … | Continue reading
I’ve got a longer post coming about this but just wanted to let everybody know that we’ve got a new iPhone app out! It’s called ‘Faceship’ and for this version 1.0 release its one and only purpose in life is to give people Tiny Faces. Why Tinyfaces? Well, I did this quick video o … | Continue reading
The era of color-coded political parties is more recent than you might think | Continue reading
Zero to one is the process of creating new things while 1 to n is ‘copying things that work.’ | Continue reading
Provision of central support services (CSS) for the implementation of eTwinning and ancillary services to support EU action for schools | Continue reading
I’ve done a bunch of talks lately, in places ranging from Hong Kong to Costa Rica, about the future of cameras and photography. (Here’s one) And one of the things I discuss is this concept of ‘Lifelogging‘ – the idea of wearing an always-on camera constantly, capturing everything … | Continue reading
I had the absolute pleasure attending the first PyCarolinas conference. I was honored when Calvin Spealman invited me to keynote on the topic of community. He wanted folks to leave feeling inspired to build up the area’s sense of community. A lot of pressure, but having a confere … | Continue reading
I had the absolute pleasure attending the first PyCarolinas conference. I was honored when Calvin Spealman invited me to keynote on the topic of community. He wanted folks to leave feeling inspired to build up the area’s sense of community. A lot of pressure, but having a confere … | Continue reading
For the last couple of years, I've been fortunate enough to see quite a few beautiful places on this planet. Most of these pictures were shot by my girlfriend, Tina. My Home Town, Vienna On a broken motorcycle, near the Pakistan border Buddhist temple at Borobudur … | Continue reading
The other day I found myself needing to insert into an array at a given position, so I wrote this little function. For example if you have pulled a list of posts from a database and are going to loop through these to output the HTML, but want to insert an advert after the third p … | Continue reading
This is part 3 in a short intro series for netsec. Part I is on password storage, and part II is on symmetric ciphers. Riddle time: Q: You live in a country with a corrupt mail system. They open every package if they can. You put a lock on the box. You can’t mail a key. How does … | Continue reading
This is part 3 in a short intro series for netsec. Part I is on password storage, and part II is on symmetric ciphers.Riddle time: Q: You live in a country with a corrupt mail system. They open every package if they can. You put a lock on the box. You can’t mail a key. How does t … | Continue reading
An overview of several main ideas from Fred Brooks’ book The Design of Design. | Continue reading
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A continuation of NetSec for n00bs, part I: Password Storage A cipher is basically an algorithm to perform encryption and decryption. Important to note: cipher algorithms, as opposed to hash algorithms, go both ways, meaning if you process a plain text to encrypted text using a c … | Continue reading
A continuation of NetSec for n00bs, part I: Password Storage A cipher is basically an algorithm to perform encryption and decryption. Important to note: cipher algorithms, as opposed to hash algorithms, go both ways, meaning if you process a plain text to encrypted text using a c … | Continue reading
In prepping for my interviews for my newly acquired position with Red Hat for the FreeIPA project, I did my own crash course in studying net security/applied cryptography. It’s a very important subject, and I feel a lot of new developers rely on frameworks or libraries to impleme … | Continue reading
In prepping for my interviews for my newly acquired position with Red Hat for the FreeIPA project, I did my own crash course in studying net security/applied cryptography. It’s a very important subject, and I feel a lot of new developers rely on frameworks or libraries to impleme … | Continue reading
One of the earliest posts I did on this blog related to new technologies in truth-detection and as the political season is heating up again I thought it would be worthwhile to revisit some of those points. (Here’s the original post) In particular, I’m interested in the variety of … | Continue reading
It is my great pleasure (and squee!) to share with my friends, family, PyLadies, twitter nerds, Women Who Code’rs, DevChixen, Systers, and everyone else that I can now say: I am an Engineer. Yes, the same person that once did not know the difference between a compiler and an inte … | Continue reading
It is my great pleasure (and squee!) to share with my friends, family, PyLadies, twitter nerds, Women Who Code’rs, DevChixen, Systers, and everyone else that I can now say: I am an Engineer. Yes, the same person that once did not know the difference between a compiler and an inte … | Continue reading
Digital Media Preservation - Why Media Organizations Can’t Archive Anthony Bouch Mon, 09/17/2012 - 18:59 Digital Media Preservation - Why Media Organizations Can’t Archive Placeholder for Submitted Info Share Placeholder for Feature Image or Video Earlier this year I was fortunat … | Continue reading
As a programmer and a fantasy football addict, I am embarassed by the means through which we must expend ourselves to get data in a machine readable form. This lack of open source software cripples the community with sub-standard tools, and most importantly, detracts from some re … | Continue reading
As the two parties shift their conventions to be mostly virtual, we look at those conventions that made a difference in the country’s political history | Continue reading
I’ll admit it… I have, on occasion, actually watched a movie or two on my iPhone. Forgive me David Lynch (Hell, I’ll even condemn myself to a deeper circle of hell by admitting that I actually watched one of the most glorious wide-screen movies ever – Lawrence of Arabia* – on an … | Continue reading
When I was in high school, I was in “IB” math - the international equivalent to AP courses, except harder. I really, really, really enjoyed math. My teacher would always mispronounce my name (“Wynn!”), but nonetheless, I loved the challenge. I was the only one to receive 100% on … | Continue reading
When I was in high school, I was in “IB” math - the international equivalent to AP courses, except harder. I really, really, really enjoyed math. My teacher would always mispronounce my name (“Wynn!”), but nonetheless, I loved the challenge. I was the only one to receive 100% on … | Continue reading
After my laptop has been running really for a couple of weeks now, I have decided to order some new RAM and do a clean install of Lion. This has given me a great opportunity to configure my development environment in a cleaner and more organised way. As a developer I do install a … | Continue reading
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I've been playing with Ruby on Rails recently and I've been using Pow as a rack server for the applications I'm working on. So I don't have to keep running "rails server" when I want to test an app out. It's a brilliant little tool from 37 Signals that they describe as a zero-con … | Continue reading
Just saw this article on AppleInsider where a photo of one of the original apple tablets prototypes is shown. Quick story about my very brief interaction with this thing. Although the article says that it may have been developed sometime between 2002 and 2004, I’m almost positive … | Continue reading
The main microcontroller is based on the ATmega328 microcontroller like the Arduino Uno Board itself. There are 14 digital input and, respectively, output pins, 6 analog inputs, a 16 MHz crystal oscillator, an ICSP header, a power jack, a reset button and of course, for the Ardui … | Continue reading
I just came across a free eBook called Locking Down WordPress from CodePoet featuring Rachel Baker, Brad Williams, and John Ford. It's an interview style book asking the 3 pro's how they handle security for their sites and is a must for anyone who uses WordPress for their clients … | Continue reading
Since camera manufacturers continue to annoy me with their unwillingness to add the features I want (yes, I’m taking this personally) I guess I’m about due for another blogpost ranting/whining about it. I’ve covered some of these things before in this blog (and quite often on the … | Continue reading
In sum, Archlinux is working beautifully. What follows is a rough run down of my notes while installing, configuring, tuning and using Archlinux on the Lenovo Thinkpad T430. | Continue reading
This week I learnt an important lesson when using Search and replace in WordPress. When I'm working on a site in development I have WordPress running on a dev domain so the client can view the website and make any changes via the dashboard. When the site is ready to go live I go … | Continue reading
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