joeclark77

Since starting to read HN, the idea has entered my consciousness that there's something of value to be learned in the Lisp family of programming languages. I am primarily a Python programmer now with experience in…

Is there any good way to generate slide presentations from text files? I'd like to be able to push my presentations to GitHub as text, so that I can see changes from one version to the next and so on. Is LaTeX the…

I've been consuming a lot of good YouTube videos on software development lately, mostly from conferences or tech talks with big audiences, and I'd like to try producing videos of my own lectures (and guest speakers) in…

I'm (re)designing a course on software project management which has morphed into a survey of agile approaches, scrum, version control, DevOps, testing, and other pieces of the modern software development business. I'm…

I'm looking for people who are working in data science, big data analytics, business intelligence, and related areas, who would be willing to be interviewed (confidentially if you like) about how this type of work is…

The last time I was a full-time web developer, the state of the art web development IDE was Allaire HomeSite, and sadly it turns out it's no longer available. What are people using these days for front-end development?…

I'm about to start teaching a course on data warehousing (dimensional modeling) with a textbook that presumes prior knowledge of relational databases and SQL. I've been using SQL since the 1990s so it's hard for me to…