Thoughts on technology, infrastructure, and AI
Two interesting stories that I have referenced recently - the first story explains the concept of Bike Sheds vs the Atomic Power Plant, and sheds some light on why managers and people sometimes behav...
I came across an interesting recent addition to the Python language (as of Python 2.4). They are called decorators. Decorators are Python objects that can register, annotate, and/or wrap a Python fun...
I've been doing some work recently that requires me to perform automated windows events - a colleague pointed me at Autoit ( http://www.autoitscript.com/autoit3/ ). It's a free scripting framework tha...
For the last seven years I have only shot digital, however I've now been convinced that film still has a lot to offer (in terms of resolution and enhanced dynamic range). The other beauty is that you...
My current problem is quite simple, I have a directory full of files with no extensions. I would like to locate all word documents and run them through my header/footer extraction tool. Easy, I'll jus...