A developer's 2015 recap focusing on conference overload, MongoDB's evolution with RocksDB, and leaving Parse, highlighting major tech industry shifts.
Analyzes the debate between working at a startup vs. a big tech company, challenging common claims about earnings and career growth.
Explores the importance of reproducible science in computer science, focusing on reproducibility, replicability, and reusability of software and data.
An analysis of Butler Lampson's 1999 predictions on computer science, comparing what worked then to the state of technology in 2015.
Interview with a software engineer about his work on OpenStack, his role at Red Hat, and his book on Python.
Discusses the tension between reproducibility in scientific software and practical software engineering, advocating for progressive code consolidation over unrealistic release standards.
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.
