This post shows you how to set up a virtual machine so you can try out Linux without having to do a full install on your physical system. A virtual machine simulates the computer hardware such as t...

The myriad recommendations and requirements of the Python Style Guide can be bewildering and difficult to remember for the uninitiated.  Pylint is a Python application that analyses your code and s...

With Python distributions such as Enthought and Anaconda, its never been easier to create and install python packages. In this post I show you how to build your own python packages and publish them...

If you’re writing a large document like a thesis or a dissertation, Latex is probably the tool for the job. In this post I use the natbib and bibunits packages to insert a list of your publications...

How you organise your computational projects is important. If you’re not  careful you can find yourself with hundreds of computer-hours worth of data,  without being exactly sure which parameters o...

If you need to free up some space you can use this script to find and compress files in linux. In my case I had some simulation files that were not currently needed, but I didn’t want to get rid of...

Make Your Life Easier With a Latex Thesis Template Writing your PhD thesis can be a daunting task. If you decide to use latex to write your thesis, one way you can make your life easier is with a a...

I’ve recently been looking into python packages that could help improve the appearance of matplotlib - the venerable, go-to plotting library for Python. For quickly plotting some data vanilla matpl...

How to Make a Grid of Images Perhaps you’ve got a time-series of images that you want to examine, or you want to look for differences in images taken from different experiments. Presenting images n...

How to Batch Crop Images With Imagemagick Imagemagick is a powerful, command-line based program for manipulating images. In this post I’ll show you how to use Imagemagick to crop several images wit...