When you are working with Python, from time to time you find that you want to have a graphical user interface (GUI) to replace the command line so that it’s easier for users of your software to work with it. For a long time, this has been a difficult task. The main issue is that […]
Python libraries for computational statistics and data science Python is a perfect choice for working with data, but it is not the only choice, R is also a great choice for instance. But since python is very accessible and it is a general-purpose language that you can use for other projects, it may be the best choice […]
There are many libraries and tools available for learning and working on projects that are related to machine learning. In addition, you can use many programming languages to work with these projects as well. This article is focused on two programming languages (Python and Java) and the open source tools that they commonly use. We […]
ImageMagick is a tool commonly used by developers to convert images between formats. It is a great tool that supports many image formats and is pretty easy to work with, once you get the command line arguments down. (It is a command line tool.) I needed to extract images from PDFs, and although I could do it […]
After installing oracle (more information on how to install oracle on a Mac) I later attempted to use the cx_Oracle library to allow development using Oracle, and ran in to a problem. The problem was that every time I would try to include cx_Oracle in python, I would see the follow error: Years ago, I […]
I hope this post will be helpful to any developer setting up a Macintosh. I plan to revise this post to keep it current. Mac Compilers and required tools Xcode Install Xcode Install Xcode using the Mac Store first and once it is complete, add the command line tools. Xcode and the command line tools […]