Software Engineering and Data Science
Having somewhat recently migrated to OS X, I’ve decided to move from Thunderbird to OS X’s built in Mail.app for it’s OS integration features.
One nice thing about Thunderbird is it’s plugin architecture. Here’s a seriously exhaustive list of plugins for Apple’s Mail.app that might even surpass that of Thunderbird: Apple Mail Plug-ins and Tools.
The one’s I found most useful: Letterbox and MailTags. Mail away!
Some of you using Windows XP and OS X in the same environment may have encountered this. In order to have a Mac and PC both able to write to an external USB drive, the disk must be formatted Fat32. Windows XP will not let you format a Fat32 disk larger than 32GB as one partition.
I’m a big fan of David Allen’s Getting Things Done style of productivity jamming. It helps me finish what I start. That’s a good thing. I also love tinkering with software. Sometimes that’s not a good thing. I’ve tried a million different web and desktop applications for organizing my stuff, probably to the detriment of actually getting stuff done.
Once in a great while an unfortunate term lodges itself in the public mind (think “electronica“). For the web developer of yesteryear and neophytes of the now it’s Web2.0.
Cute I’ll admit, but perhaps too techy to explain to Grandma. It does however represent something meaningful, ie the second coming of innovative web technologies, web based applications, and now more experienced business and engineering professionals ready for another go at internet fame and fortune.
I was a hard core emacs user for a long time, then a pretty devout Eclipse user. Recently, taking the MyEclipse plunge has been worth every cent of the subscription fee. The handiest tool so far has been the Database Explorer (think: MySQL query browser, Toad, pgAdmin) and the Hibernate Reverse Engineering tool. See this video of both in action.