You may have noticed all has been quiet on the blog front from me lately. There are several reasons for this,1 but I can assure you it isn't for lack of things to write about. Today, I'm happy to share with you one of the projects that has been …
Secure Password Use in Scripts
NOTE: If you're using passwords in shell scripts, see Daniel Jalkut's reply below about using OS X's built-in security command instead of his AppleScript library.
One of my goals for the new year1 is to be more security minded in my use of technology. This is a broad statement …
Torrential File Synchronization
My research requires that I work in multiple locations: in the lab, at a multi-institution shared instrument facility, and sometimes in my fuzzy slippers at home. Having my data and processing scripts updated on whatever computer I happen to be using is critical to my ability to get work done …
Easy Syntax Highlighting With Pygments
As a scientist who splits her time between both wet lab and computational work, I have learned the importance of saving code snippets for future reference. These snippets are handy when I later can't recall a clever Pandas indexing trick or when I want to share code with a colleague …
Automated Notifications of Experiment Progress: Prowl Extra Credit
Previously, I posted about using Growl in combination with Prowl to get remote notifications of experiment progress on both a Mac and iPhone. Later that day, I started thinking about some improvements to the script after a brief Twitter conversation with Seth Brown.1
The script depends on the remote …