Software Carpentry course in Nature
Friday, July 29th, 2005Nature has run a short blurb about the course I'm putting together on software development skills for scientists and engineers.
Archive for July, 2005
Nature has run a short blurb about the course I'm putting together on software development skills for scientists and engineers.
MSR2005 Presentation in St. Louis
Friday, July 15th, 2005After two months, I wrote a detailed trip log of the conference.
PDF Generation Revisited
Friday, July 15th, 2005I gather from some of the comments and email that my earlier post about batch generation of PDFs from web pages wasn't clear, so here's my second try. The Software Carpentry course that I'm writing for the Python Software Foundation has about 35 web pages. I'd like to ...
When You Have a Hammer…
Thursday, July 14th, 2005...it makes sense to go looking for nails. When you have a new way to organize information that works well in one context, it makes sense to see how well it will solve problems in others. This is a working sketch (in Perl) of how we might use ...
Software Carpentry notes are up
Friday, July 8th, 2005I put an alpha version of the notes for the Software Carpentry course [1] on-line yesterday. Now, I'm looking for a way to convert them into a single PDF document, so that reviewers can download them in one shot. I've found some open source tools that don't do ...
125 Questions
Friday, July 1st, 2005To celebrate its 125th anniversary, Science magazine has drawn up a list of 125 open questions. Makes for an interesting read...