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{ Monthly Archives } August 2009

Python and the Mac

I wanted to run a python pro­gram on my Mac that was ori­gin­ally writ­ten for Linux. Should work just fine, right? Well, not quite. Given it took quite a while to fig­ure out pre­cisely what I needed, I’m writ­ing it up for next time I need to do this. The first prob­lem was an error message […]

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Problems Importing Into Canada

I’ve often wondered why so many U.S. online com­pan­ies won’t sell to people liv­ing in Canada. It’s a smal­ler mar­ket, to be sure, but not trivial, in fact big­ger than most U.S. states. I’ve recently dis­covered a large part of the reason — Canada’s import pro­ced­ures and tax laws. Tim’s blog costs a reas­on­able amount to […]

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Becoming the Non-Coding PM

I’ve had a couple of inter­est­ing com­ments on my piece about Cod­ing vs Non-Coding Pro­ject Man­agers; in my case it was the way things worked out rather than a delib­er­ate choice. After my degree in phys­ics, and a couple of years of post-doctoral work (which involved some com­puter stuff, of course) I got post-graduate diploma […]

Coding vs Non-Coding Project Managers

In my post­ing about becom­ing a Scrum Mas­ter, I talked about teams with non-coding pro­ject man­agers often being more effect­ive than teams with pro­ject man­agers who also code. It seems that that’s a minor­ity view; most com­pan­ies appear to assume that any pro­ject man­ager should also act­ively code. I agree that any pro­ject man­ager in […]

Twitter for Conferences

I’ve been asked by a couple of people involved in organ­ising con­fer­ences why they should have a con­fer­ence Twit­ter account, so I fig­ure it’s a gen­eral enough ques­tion to be worth blog­ging. Basic­ally, it’s all about start­ing or con­tinu­ing your con­ver­sa­tion with those who attend, or might attend, or have atten­ded, or are inter­ested in […]