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Christian Johansen’s “An introduction to Emacs Lisp”
Christian Johansen, author of Test-Driven Javascript, wrote a great intro to Emacs Lisp: “An introduction to Emacs Lisp”. One of the better one’s I’ve reviewed and it is one for the bookmarks.
Potato Chip… Science
I’m giving this as a gift this year. Looks like lots of fun 🙂
YouTube: “The Potato Chip Science Kit”
How 5 illiterate women solar electrified 270 houses
Watch this short (10 minute) video and get inspired. You can learn more than what you believe you can, and do more with it.
YouTube: The Rural Women Solar Engineers of Africa – YouTube:
Philadelphia HS reinventing what HS is
Philly.com: Kristen A. Graham: Phila. Sustainability Workshop tries to reinvent the high school – Philly.com.
“Do real work, solve real problems. Trust kids to make good choices. Let them learn from failure. If we’re serious about schools helping to change some of these kids’ lives, we have to have these conversations.”
The Muppets’ greatest hits
Salon.com posts a fun slideshow of some great Muppets musical moments: The Muppets’ greatest hits.
Go see the new movie. You won’t regret it.
A nice guide to using iTerm2, tmux, emacs, irssi on the Mac
Edouard Swiac posts a guide to “Hacking like a hacker on a Mac using iTerm2, tmux, emacs, irssi (and more).”. I’m using Solarized now in Emacs and Terminal and might come back to this to add a few more tweaks to my work environment.
entaroadun/hnpickup – An educational example of a data mining app
entaroadun/hnpickup looks like a nice project to introduce you to some data mining application design patterns to follow any place. It uses Google App Engine and Python.
The Java Ecosystem (for the Sinatra or web.py lover)
Shaneal Manek’s posted a piece on Java that is another one for the bookmarks (and one to experiment with if you aren’t familiar), that introduces some Sinatra or web.py capabilities to the Java crowd: The Modern Java Ecosystem (for the Sinatra or web.py lover).
Here goes his example project on Github.
The Python Ecosystem – An Introduction
mirnazim.org posts a fantastic intro to the ‘Python Ecosystem’ that is worth bookmarking and coming back to: Python Ecosystem – An Introduction. Discussion at Hacker News.
Here is some great Python related news: Adrian Holovaty is getting back involved with Django!.