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Essential Tools: Version Control Systems, Konrad Hinsen, Konstantin Läufer, George K. Thiruvathukal
Essential Tools: Version Control Systems, Konrad Hinsen, Konstantin Läufer, George K. Thiruvathukal
Konstantin Läufer
Did you ever wish you'd made a backup copy of a file before changing it? Or before applying a collaborator's modifications? Version control systems make this easier, and do a lot more.
Unit Testing Considered Useful, George K. Thiruvathukal, Konstantin Läufer, Benjamin Gonzalez
Unit Testing Considered Useful, George K. Thiruvathukal, Konstantin Läufer, Benjamin Gonzalez
Konstantin Läufer
Testing is an important part of application development. Hardware engineers, in particular, have a long established history of testing for the obvious reason that it's awfully hard to rebuild a microprocessor every time a bug pops up in the design stage--not to mention the enormous headaches such bugs generate on the software side.
Virtualization For Computational Scientists, George K. Thiruvathukal, Konrad Hinsen, Joseph P. Kaylor, Konstantin Läufer
Virtualization For Computational Scientists, George K. Thiruvathukal, Konrad Hinsen, Joseph P. Kaylor, Konstantin Läufer
Konstantin Läufer
Virtualization lets you carve your computer into slices, allowing for great experimentation with different operating systems, tools, and techniques.
Putting A Slug To Work, Konstantin Läufer, George K. Thiruvathukal, Ryohei Nishimura, Carlos Ramirez Martinez-Eiroa
Putting A Slug To Work, Konstantin Läufer, George K. Thiruvathukal, Ryohei Nishimura, Carlos Ramirez Martinez-Eiroa
Konstantin Läufer
In this article, the authors explore various uses of inexpensive embedded Linux devices such as the Linksys NSLU2 ("slug"). Embedded computing is a topic of growing interest. Although novel architectures such as cell processors, graphics processors (GPUs), and FPGAs are growing in popularity, conventional microproessor designs such as Intel's Xscale (ARM) and Atom pack a punch in a small footprint, not to mention being widely supported by commodity operating system and development tools. We're convinced that this entire space is a tool worth keeping in the scientific programmer's and software developer's toolchests.
Scientific Programming: The Promises Of Typed, Pure, And Lazy Functional Programming: Part Ii, Konstantin Läufer, George K. Thiruvathukal
Scientific Programming: The Promises Of Typed, Pure, And Lazy Functional Programming: Part Ii, Konstantin Läufer, George K. Thiruvathukal
Konstantin Läufer
This second installment picks up where Konrad Hinsen's article "The Promises of Functional Programming" from the July/August 2009 issue left off, covering static type inference and lazy evaluation in functional programming languages.
Plone And Content Management, George K. Thiruvathukal, Konstantin Läufer
Plone And Content Management, George K. Thiruvathukal, Konstantin Läufer
Konstantin Läufer
In this column, the authors look at Plone, which they feel is one of the best content management systems available today. Even better, it?s distributed under a free open-source license: the cost of getting started is only limited to the time you have available to set up the software on a server. Plone is written in Python and uses the Zope application server infrastructure; it runs on most modern operating systems. The authors have even set it up at Loyola University Chicago in the Department of Computer Science. Besides being two faculty members who rely on Plone to host all …
Moving Academic Department Functions To Social Networks And Clouds: Initial Experiences, George K. Thiruvathukal, Konstantin Läufer, David Dennis
Moving Academic Department Functions To Social Networks And Clouds: Initial Experiences, George K. Thiruvathukal, Konstantin Läufer, David Dennis
Konstantin Läufer
The ability to move locally hosted services to cloud-based technologies is a key element in the scientific programming toolbox.