I do a lot of Python work, and I’m a huge fan of virtualenv, which allows you to set up a completely isolated Python environment. This is hugely helpful to keep various dependencies from multiple projects from clobbering one another. It’s so helpful, that...
With apologies to Mr. Poe: I was fuming in frustration, sitting clicking at my station, I’ll spare you some narration, but I was getting pretty sore. ‘Surely there must be some method, whereby changes are detected, And perhaps then be injected into my...
A few weeks ago I got a germ of an idea in my head for a personal web-application that required recording and playing video, something with which I have had very little experience. I have seen how effortless is it to play video with HTML5 so I thought this would be...
When it comes time to relate the ephemeral world of data to the physical world, Maps are key in both enterprise and consumer applications. Whatever else you might think of it, Google Maps tends to be the default option – certainly, its the only one I’ve...
Thanks to Jimmy Fallon and the Mets bucket hat guy, I’ve found myself stringing together random word associations like this, which is where this title came from. But honestly, the last thing I would associate with popcorn is a javascript media library. So I...
