Category Archives: Geekstuff

There’s a neat article about the upcoming use of Sterling Engines to create some highly effecient solar energy conversion in the California desert. I first read about this some time back, and have since been quietly obsessed with the idea of using the external combustion engine (yes, that’s correct and NOT a typo) in aContinue reading “Sterling Engines”

One of the neat experiments at Mindcamp has been talked about a bit – the Seattle Wireless Network put up (or attempted to put up) a rather large ad-hoc wireless network using OLSR. It’s been commented on by others, so I’ll just summarize by saying: “Neat experiment, didn’t work for us”. I was very skepticalContinue reading “OLSR at Mindcamp”

Hmmm… FreeBSD 6.0 is hittin’ the streets. Going to have to check this out…

Michele Simionato has an article up at OReillyNet on testing web applications, focused mainly around python and Twill. Twill is a neat little mini-language thing, and he mentions Selenium at the very end of the article. I wish he’d looked a little more into Selenium. The more I see of it, the more I thinkContinue reading “Testing web apps (Python, Twill)”

Gus‘ VoodooPad has had the ability to run code inside it for quite a while. It was one of the coolest features for me, providing me a massive snippet library of python tidbits as I was working out a problem. Now someone else is really getting into that same style – and Garret is takingContinue reading “Old feature, new twist for VoodooPad”