Codecademy is an online, interactive learning environment for web technologies. With it’s combination of good pacing, humour and example projects, I’ve found it really does make it easier to learn a new coding language. I really would recommend it. Codecademy Has Excellent Free Lessons I’ve been working through their free Javascript lessons, which I’ve found… Read More »
Open source science software has a lot to offer the scientific community. This is a far from complete list of open source science software that I’ve found useful in the past. Inkscape Inkscape is a vector graphics tool (similar to Adobe Illustrator) that is invaluable for making figures, diagrams and posters. You can also (with… Read More »
In this post I show you how you can make easy notepad journal, using Notepad.exe – the default text editor for Windows. I’ll show you how you can get notepad to automatically append today’s date to the end of a file which makes it easy to keep a track of notes or journal entries. Add… Read More »
I’ve picked out a few of the utility programs that I find invaluable. Some of them I use everyday, and some of them I just like to keep around to get me out of trouble from time to time. Let me know in the comments which little programs you can’t do without. Launchy This is… Read More »
Open science, open data and open publishing are all the rage right now, so why not open source your research and share your code with GitHub? GitHub is an online platform for hosting and sharing repositories of the git version control software. If you’re not already familiar with it, version control is a process of… Read More »