There seem to be various editors for Python and there are many articles online (e.g., this blog post) that discuss the features of the various editors. PyCharm by JetBrains seems pretty popular, but while I was Googling for Python editors, I came across Python Tools for Visual Studio. Coming from a C# background, I thought... Continue Reading →
Visualization techniques have been evolving rapidly and with a growing trend towards ‘big data’ and ‘analytics’ there are so many technologies to choose from. If the development technology is not a constraint, D3 is arguably the best way to go, but if you are looking for some charting capabilities within a WPF/C# development environment your... Continue Reading →
It’s that time of the year again where most employees need to sign up for their healthcare plans for 2014 (assuming you are getting insurance through your employer). There seem to be all sorts of healthcare plans like PPO, ABHP/HSA/HDP, HMO, EPO, POS etc (here are a couple of references that discuss what all the... Continue Reading →
I use Outlook for my email and typically have it opened pretty much the whole day. I have Outlook configured (as IMAP) to fetch my personal gmail emails as well. Sometimes, especially if I’m travelling, I use the gmail web interface/app, but on a day-to-day basis Outlook is usually what I use for all my... Continue Reading →
The NCBO Annotator allows you to get annotations for (biomedical) text from a number of standard ontologies. For instance, if I want to find the corresponding RadLex codes for ‘abdomen knee’, I can type them into the textbox, and restrict the ontology list to just RadLex. This manual approach works fine if you just want... Continue Reading →
I was trying to find a flat list of RadLex terms that just had the IDs and descriptions. You can easily browse RadLex using the RadLex Term Browser, but my requirement was to do a quick lookup using a local database. I couldn’t find something online that was readily available, so I wrote some code... Continue Reading →
There’re many many forums that discuss various aspects related to the greencard process. One of the recurring questions seems to be how many publications you need for EB1-EA/NIW. My case is neither since it was filed under EB1-OR., but thought I would just share with you what I had at the time of applying in... Continue Reading →
Almost every time I try to connect to SQL Server from Java I end up hacking something together, like copy-pasting the connection string from an old project; then again, more often than not I end up getting some sort of error and spending quite sometime Googling. So I spent sometime trying to understand the different... Continue Reading →
Well, I don’t usually write much for my ‘personal’ category, but the frustration with KrisFlyer has been so high that I thought the topic would be a good one to write something about. Perhaps others with similar experience could share theirs? I had high regard for Singapore Airlines back in the days. They were known... Continue Reading →
I realized recently that one of my old homepages is still around on the internet. This was my second attempt to create a homepage for myself and this was done back in 2004 when I was trying to learn DreamWeaver. I think I still updated a few pages till around 2006 or so, but most... Continue Reading →
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