Using Matplotlib to get XKCD-style Plots
This past week, I found another developer blog where a post caught my attention: Pythonic Perambulations. More specifically, it was this post regarding presenting data in an “xkcd” style. I figured I’d give this blog post some inbound link props because I found the content both useful and amusing. The author seems to have gotten…
C++, WebSockets, and Mt.Gox
I’ve been reading quite a bit about websockets lately. To test my understanding of the concepts involved, I was trying to connect an application to Mt.Gox in order to collect bitcoin-related pricing information. I was having some difficulty getting all of the parameters aligned properly with all of the various websocket libraries, so I went…