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Thursday, December 17th, 2009
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Scientist-Programmers write a lot of scripts. It's part-and-parcel of "trying stuff out", it's a quick way to get some number crunching done on those data, and it's very useful for generating the figures and tables that you need for that paper you're ...
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Tuesday, September 29th, 2009
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As any attentive movie-goer knows, self-improvement can be a great way for the hero to overcome the obstacles in their path and generally do great stuff. As it is with Rocky Balboa, so it is with programmers, and particularly with Scientist-Programmers. Finding the ...
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Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009
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The purpose of this blog is to help scientists program more effectively and efficiently, so they can get more science done. For those of you who'd like to be systematic in your learning, we present the prog4sci software project primer!
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Tuesday, August 18th, 2009
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This article will hopefully be helpful for those times when you have to explain to your mum/dad/girlfriend/person on the bus what it is you do all day. I can't help you explain the intricacies of your particular scientific field but I can help explain how ...
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Tuesday, August 4th, 2009
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Lots of scientists write bits of software to get things done. Sometimes they offer to give someone else (a collaborator, student, postdoc etc) a copy of some of their code, to help that person out. Sometimes a given piece of code is useful enough ...
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