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15
May

Cygwin, A fish out of water!!!

Cygwin is a great tool for unix people who find themselves in a Microsoft world.  I’ve been using Cygwin for years but never for more than some very basic things.  Lately I’ve been spending some more time with it and I have to say I’m really impressed.  I won’t go into any unix basics or how to install Cygwin as there are many good references on the internet.[1][2] What I will do is list some tips and techniques that I have found useful and not entirely obvious such as setting up a tool for managing packages similar to Debians venerable apt-get, managing ssh keys, replacing the standard windows dos shell as the terminal and using apt-cyg to install packages not in the standard Cygwin repositories.
9
Oct

My Maker Journey : Thoughts and Considerations

As I mentioned in my previous post about starting my maker journey,  I’m really interested in making things and home fabrication.  Here are some additional thoughts about how I’m going about this and what is behind the decisions I’m making.  Depending on what your goals are you may make very different decisions than I have.

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29
Aug

My Maker Journey

As many of you know, for the past year or so, I’ve been following a lot of different projects out there.  Most of these are related to fabricating things.  I’m not talking about making a chair or some crappy device that only a geek would want to look at.  I’m talking about real products produced in a professional manner.

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30
Apr

Paladyne in the news

A company I work for, Paladyne, has recently started the process of leveraging many different technologies to inform the community about the things they are doing.  You can check them out on Twitter and their WordPress Blog.

I particularly like the post on Bank Debt (shameless plug ;-) and Sols writeup “Can you beat the sheet?“

31
Mar

Wes McKinney at AQR and how he uses python for financial analytics

I watched a great PyCon 2010 demo where Wes McKinney at AQR showed how he uses python for financial analytics.

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8
Aug
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My Projects

Ok so now that I’m bearing my soul to the world with this public blogging I guess I can put up the projects that I’ve been working on as well. Feel free to comment and let me know if you like any of them or if you know any way to make them better.

http://johnrizzo.net/projects/

22
Jul
Writing

Writings

I’ve been writing a lot lately about various things that interest me. I usually don’t publish these writings anywhere since they are really just a way for me to work out my thoughts. Recently I was talking with some friends and one of them convinced me that what I write about may be useful to others. I’ve begruggingly agreed but I’ll try to keep the things I publish to more than just the ramblings of yet another voice on the net.

So as a form of introduction, “Hello” and I hope you find the things I publish useful.