http://guelich.net/blog A programmer studying medicine in rural New England Fri, 11 Apr 2008 23:56:57 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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. ... http://guelich.net/blog/2008/04/11/the-value-of-design-pt-1 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 ... http://guelich.net/blog/2008/04/01/automated-battery-monitor 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 ... http://guelich.net/blog/2008/03/22/shaking-the-dust-off "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 ... http://guelich.net/blog/2007/04/14/an-ugly-marriage If you do any Mac development with CoreData and don't know about Jonathan Rentzsch's mogenerator, you should definitely check it out. Getting started with mogenerator has all the info you need to download and install it (update: see his latest info about mogenerator 1.1). mogenerator saves a bunch of work, ... http://guelich.net/blog/2007/01/01/running-mogenerator-from-xcode So as it says on my about page, I went from being a professional programmer to a med student. Given that I love traveling so much, I'm still not sure what I was thinking giving up the next several years of my life... but here I am. It'll be interesting to ... http://guelich.net/blog/2006/12/29/hello-world