How to Set Up Emacs for Ruby Programming in Seconds — This is a short note how you can set up your Emacs editor for programming in Ruby within seconds. The settings for your emacs is explained in detail this blog here. I personally in my Ubuntu Linux home folder created a folder named emacs to put there all kind of…

How To Transfer Data Wirelessly Without USB or External Hard Drives. — Once I wanted to transfer data from one computer to another at home, but couldn’t find a USB stick with enough memory for this. Who doesn’t know this situation. Luckily there is a convenient solution if both computers are connected to the same WiFi network. And if you have for…

Advice to Beginner Programmers — Right now I am leaving my second programming position (Bioinformatics Postdoctoral Research in a University). Time to look back and asking myself: What I have learned? What would I do differently when I would start this job again? The most important piece of advice I wished somebody would have told…

Yes, You Can Run a Full-Fledged Linux OS On Your Android Device! — Imagine you are on a lonely Island. With you: Only your Android Tablet and a Bluetooth keyboard. (Tablet or phone capable of multithreading — e.g. Samsung SM-T580 or newer). How to code with this setting? In Google Playstore, you won’t find any useful Interpreter nor a Compiler for your programming…

Unifying Python’s Path Handling Functions a la R’s Fashion. — Path handling functions in base R are built-in, clean and intuitive, while Python’s path handling functions are distributed, duplicated, and slightly differing across three different standard packages ( os, pathlib, and shutils). How about to unify them into one Python package? Let’s call this package rpath. And let’s together create…

Python Equivalents to Path Handling Functions in R — Recently, I published an article about path handling functions in R which are built-in functions in base R. Since I use both languages at my work — I work as a Bioinformatician (= a Data Scientist/Analyst working on biomedical datasets), I wanted to have the same list for Python. Path…

In-built Path handling Functions in R are very useful — When writing Data Science and Data Analysis Scripts in R, not rarely one has to recursively search for files inside folders, test for their existence, create new folders or files, rename or move them, delete them, and perform many other miscellaneous actions around paths. Here, I want to give you…

Learning C as someone coming from an interpreted (dynamical) language — first steps — Minimal C Program (Hello world!) Other than Python, C programs have minimal requirements which have to be met to be eligible by the compiler to compile and run at all. Any C program begins at the main() {} function. Any command has to end with a ; , so actually main() {};. However, after a…