So I was playing around with some code in Python today and was  curious about static members of a class (I guess that is what you would call it). I wanted to know if I set an attribute at the class level and change it, would all the instances see that change or if each [...]

So I needed to find the number of files in a directory recursively. I found a great way to figure that out on Linux that has helped me a couple times now. I definitely need to remember it…anyway here is is: find /my/directory -type f |wc -l If you need to find the number of [...]

So, I just started using twitter and it is pretty cool. One of the best things I think on facebook is seeing people’s status change…it can show what they are going through or doing right now. Twitter is a little microblogging tool that you basically just state your status like you would on facebook and [...]

For the last several months on my Ubuntu machine at work the numpad has not been working. It has been so frustrating. I would turn the numlock on and off and nothing would seem to get it to work. I thought it was something wrong with the keyboard or possibly after a kernel update one [...]