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Archive for January, 2010

Setting Up Incanter and MySQL

Thursday, January 21st, 2010
Okay, Lein really does make stuff pretty easy. Rather than wrestling with eleventybillion classpaths, just install Lein. Create a new project directory with lein new mydirectory Change the project.clj file that is autogenerated with: [code lang='clojure'] (defproject mydirectory "1.0.0-SNAPSHOT" :description "FIXME: write" :dependencies [[org.clojure/clojure "1.1.0-alpha-SNAPSHOT"] [org.clojure/clojure-contrib "1.0-SNAPSHOT"] [mysql/mysql-connector-java "5.1.6"] [incanter/incanter "1.0-master-SNAPSHOT"]]) [/code] (that is, add [...]

Tethering an iPhone with SSH and Windows 7

Saturday, January 16th, 2010
I don’t need to tether through my iPhone — I always seem to be near a hotspot — but nonetheless I thought that spending 10 minutes to set it up was worth it, because when you need tethering, you really need tethering. If you’re willing to drop $10 bucks there are a couple of apps [...]

Acer 1410 Mini-review

Friday, January 8th, 2010
I’ve had an Asus EEE 1000h ever since they came out, but it was getting to be time to upgrade it — it was not a bad little machine, but the Atom processor was a bit underpowered, and that damnable right shift key always did bug me. I picked up an Acer Aspire 1410 with [...]