For some time now I have wanted to post about the value of creativity and original design in software development. Much has been written in the last couple years about the importance of presentation in the Mac community. Forget lickable, nowadays a good Mac app needs to be downright delicious. But less has been said […]
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Woot is all charged up over 4/1.
Antidote:
#!/usr/bin/ruby
require “hpricot”
require “open-uri”
def growl ( title, message )
system “growlnotify”, “-m”, message, “-t”, title
end
while (1)
begin
doc = Hpricot( open(”http://www.woot.com/”) )
item = (doc/”h3#ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder_TitleHeader”).text
[…]
It’s time to start blogging again.
When I started this blog, I planned to primarily explore areas like bioinformatics where medicine and technology come together. However, over the past year my interests in programming and medicine have remained on distinctly parallel paths. They just have not come together.
Currently I am hard at work on a Mac […]
“Don’t be evil.” That’s Google’s informal corporate motto, which they proudly advertise. Like a lot of companies started by young innovators, they try to uphold the idealism of their founders, and though they may have grown to become a multi-billion dollar corporate giant, they’re mostly a gentle giant. So when news came out that Google […]