Announcing EuroSciPy 2015, the European conference on Python for scientific computing, with calls for papers, talks, and tutorials.
A software engineer announces his departure from Chef Software after facing severe online harassment and death threats within the Chef community.
Discusses the importance of meeting scribing and documentation as a company scales, offering practical tips for effective note-taking and communication.
A PyCon 2014 attendee reflects on the community spirit of swag bag stuffing and the technical depth of an open space session on software composition.
A practical guide on the essential and non-essential elements for building a successful web application, emphasizing simplicity and core problem-solving.
Article critiques a misleading report claiming no gender pay gap in tech, using evidence from the AAUW study to refute the claim.
A computer science graduate shares advice on acing technical interviews, emphasizing thought process, storytelling, and the STAR method.
A computer science major debunks common stereotypes about the field, discussing work environments, gender diversity, and the creative problem-solving nature of CS.
An engineer reflects on a difficult college project to argue that schools should teach debugging as a core skill, not just theory.
A developer shares their experience and study resources for passing the Microsoft 70-486 ASP.NET MVC 4 Web Applications certification exam.
An argument for why developers should sometimes write their own code instead of always using existing libraries, focusing on performance and maintainability.
Announcement for a 2-year junior engineer position to work on the scikit-learn machine learning library at INRIA near Paris.
Discusses the challenges and benefits of publishing scientific papers about software development, especially interdisciplinary scientific software.
Argues for better scientific computing tools, emphasizing readability, reproducibility, and open-source libraries as crucial for research.
A developer shares lessons learned from creating seven experimental games, focusing on iteration, execution, and goal-setting.
A developer shares a Scrabble tournament result and announces an upcoming tech talk on error handling and Murphy's Law in programming.
A software engineer shares his top 5 essential books for software professionals, focusing on design, refactoring, and testing.
A comparison of the work culture and required mindset for individuals in large tech corporations versus startups in Silicon Valley.
An analysis arguing Google's future is at risk if it doesn't focus on its core search and advertising business, instead of diversifying into other products.
A candidate shares their detailed experience interviewing for a Microsoft internship, covering phone screening and an in-person technical interview in Warsaw.
