I’ve been exploring the Python documentation system for ReadTheDocs with Sphinx. It could be that I’m dense, but the sphinx-quickstart command seems horribly divorced from most of the automagic documentation goals of the Sphinx project. After following several guides1, 2 I noticed that only an index.rst had been created in...
Hello everyone! Today we'll be talking about essential array/list methods in different languages, reminding our readers of differences across languages. As beginner programmers, many of us are not aware of differences in the implementations of fundamental structures between languages. While we occasionally hear generalizations (perl is faster than python for...
Hi everyone, have you ever wondered what would be a good idea for an app? Since I became a developer, now I have *some* of the tools to potentially create some basic web applications, command line tools, etc. For some developers who aren't creating regularly, it may seem like your...
See the great thing about science and technology jobs is our transparency and focus on the problem, not on the finance. You could say that the tech sector is very scientific and rational. You see, we rationalize taking advantage of liberally licensed software. We value open source software because... it...
In this blog post we’ll be reviewing the essentials of a mature workstation build, in this case, for graduate school. We begin with a look...
I see plenty of posts on /r/bioinformatics of students or mid-career professionals asking what it takes to become a bioinformatician. What skills should I have?...
Oh yeah, it’s all coming together If you’re comfortable with the differences between dictionaries and modules, skip ahead to the section about modules where I...
Introduction Big data is a meme, but there is a dichotomy worth discussing in the emerging interdisciplinary fields involving computer science. There is a choice...