Things

A short list of things I have spent my time with as a developer so far. I’ve tryied to link some related own existing code on all keywords to describe the variety of tasks I’ve met in my life.

Databases

• MySQL, Postgresql, Sqllite
• Elasticsearch
• Rethinkdb (with changefeeds !!)
• Graph database neo4j
• MongoDB

Languages

I studied Pascal, BASIC, C/C++ and Java (also ML, Matlab, R) when I was at the university.

But then I started working in real life directly with web development somewhere 15 years ago.

Finally I switched to Python 5 years ago and never looked back.

PHP 5

• daemons
• Object oriented programming
• meta programming
• The pipeliner: web interfaces to submit pipelines against an HPC cluster

Python 2 & 3

• Understanding PEPs and best practices
• RESTful HTTP-API
  • European data infrastructure
  • Flask
    • WSGI
      • uwsgi
      • gevent
      • tornado
  • queues and tasks
    • Celery and RabbitMQ
• data analytics
  • Big Data / MapReduce
    • mrjob
    • PySpark
• Unittests
• Zen of Python

Javascript

• Plain (with PHP)
• Jquery
• Angularjs 1

HTML5 & CSS3

• Plain
• CSS Frameworks
  • Foundation
  • Bootstrap
  • Material Design

Learning

• Daily look/find and quickly test new technologies
• Read Packt books/PDF on an old Kindle
• PythonistaCafé (private) forum

Teaching

• Jupyter notebooks
  • Data analytics
  • Python and his Zen
  • Life of a researcher (for High Schools)
• Go to meetings or congresses all around Europe
  • Make presentations about my work
  • Give a talk in streaming about my Python experiments

Opensource

• use opensource libraries as much as possible and collaborate to help them grow
• write opensource libraries
• also trying to write some real documentation

DevOps

• virtual resources
  • Openstack multi-tenancies
• containers
  • Docker images and containers
    • Docker Hub
  • Compose, Machine, Swarm
• rancher (love this one!)
  • Containers clusters
  • Services and stacks
  • Custom catalogs
  • API integration
• proxy
  • letsencrypt SSL certificates
  • nginx
    • consul
  • haproxy
  • traefik

Setup of a machine

• Linux: mainly Debian and/or Ubuntu
  • Gnome, XFCE, KDE
  • Compiz :)
• Macbook air
  • Setapp
  • iterm2
  • sublime text 3 (w/ anaconda)

Blog

• About Multiple Sclerosis
• also about quite anything