It’s quite an investment to pick up a new programming language (syntax, semantics, types), along with all its periphery: tools, libraries, interfaces, environment, documentation, culture, user groups, history, idioms, and quirks. I’m not trying to force myself to learn a new language every year, though looking back it’s pretty much turned out that way. I [...]
I’m getting pretty excited for the first meeting of the PDX-visualization group (which I convinced Ed to expand his R Language Study group into). One of the topics we’ll be going over is Graphviz. It’s old as dirt (ChangeLog goes back to 2000 at v1.7, but I’m guessing it’s at least a decade older) and [...]
Our front-end guru wants to take the plunge and get to know more about our middle and back (and way-back) ends. There are more than a couple steps down the road to mastery, but the essentials are enough to get you well on your way. This is a brief (link-farm) guide for someone with some [...]
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A look at automating setup for every new Ubuntu; and maybe even a meme. Linux distros these days tend to be pretty minimal in their default install mode. Many of us used to be in the habit of checking the “Install Everything” box in the earlier Red Hat days. But then the box disappeared, and [...]