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June 17, 2024
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🧩 Maintaining Code Quality with `pre-commit`

Some tips and tools to help keep research software reproducible, reliable and robust.

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November 6, 2020
in Conferences, Embedded Systems, Life, Opinionated, RSW Engineering
8 min read

🪞 Mirroring Public Repositories on Github, Privately

This post walks through the steps involved if you want to fork a public Github repository, privately. It will show how to have an open public repository and how to mirror it in a private repository on Github.

November 6, 2020
in Conferences, Embedded Systems, Life, Opinionated, RSW Engineering
10 min read

⚡️ PySpark by Example

Here are my worked examples from the very useful LinkedIn Learning course: PySpark by Example by Jonathan Fernandes : https://www.linkedin.com/learning/apache-pyspark-by-example

November 6, 2020
in Conferences, Embedded Systems, Life, Opinionated, RSW Engineering
5 min read

🎁 Packaging Scala Applications

Scala compiles down to Java byte code, which can then be run on any system running the JVM. It would be nice if one could extend this to native system binaries that can be run anywhere. Here I walk through the steps of getting SBT-Native-Packager to create a native binary as well as a docker image that can run my 'Hello World' application.

November 6, 2020
in Conferences, Embedded Systems, Life, Opinionated, RSW Engineering
3 min read

🐍 Calling Compiled Scala Code from Python using PySpark

Calling compiled Scala code inside the JVM from Python using PySpark.

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