Michael de Silva Hi, I'm Michael and welcome to my blog.

My interests are rather wide and varied, from reading to writing with fountain pens as well as enjoying great food with even greater company.

Consider having a look at my Flickr photostream, if photography interests you. I have also authored some texts on Mathematics, Physics, and Engineering. Last but not least, my Curriculum Vitae.

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Blog moved to TLD

Noticed that SEO on my blog took a nosedive once I moved it to a subdomain, “blog.” – therefore, I’ve moved it back to the top-level domain; I only needed to hack around with the .htaccess scripts as the core WP files had already been installed in a sub-directory.

Getting python setup in OS X

These following three blog posts helped me get my development environment setup quite easily, and fourth may have helped a little… http://blog.praveengollakota.com/47430655 http://mitchfournier.com/2010/06/25/getting-started-with-virtualenv-isolated-python-environments/ http://jessenoller.com/2009/03/16/so-you-want-to-use-python-on-the-mac/ http://www.fprimex.com/coding/python.html In summary, sudo python ez_setup.py // boot­strap setup­tools and easy_install sudo python setup.py install // grab the tarball here sudo pip install virtualenv sudo pip install virtualenvwrapper Add to ~/.bash_profile [...]

Blogging via XML-RPC

Well this is certainly a first for me. Picked up an iPad 2 today and setting it up took no less than 5 mins considering all I had to do was just restore the backed up image of my older iPad, that I parted with in November 2010. Not much has changed with the update, [...]

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Web Design for Masochists

This is so completely true… a couple months ago this is exactly the kind of nightmare I had to endure make that, most days at work for me. Unfortunately, the distinction between a designer and developer is completely lost on most people. It doesn’t take a degree in theoretical physics specialising in string theory to [...]

Projects

  • Nexus One

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