Archive for July, 2009

16 Jul

Mayavi: 2 videos of tutorial-like presentation

I gave a presentation on Mayavi in the Python for science seminar organised by Fernando Perez at Berkeley. I was loudmouth and obnoxious as usual, and unfortunately for me, I was recorded.
More seriously, Jeff Teeters has filmed the presentation and recorded the sound was a microphone I was wearing. I find that he did a [...]

16 Jul

Announcing the SciPy conference schedule

The SciPy conference committee is pleased to announce the schedule of the conference:
http://conference.scipy.org/schedule
This year’s program is very rich. In order to limit the number of interesting talks that we had to turn down, we decided to reduce the length of talks. Although this results in many short talks, we hope that it will foster discussions, [...]

13 Jul

My article on scientific computing with Python

I have never sold the rights to the article I published in LinuxMagazine France on scientific computing with Python. So I am uploading it to the net, under a CC-by-SA license : link to the pdf version.
It is in French, so it restricts the audience.

08 Jul

Tutorial on scientific use of Python

The notes of the tutorial I gave on scientific use of Python at PyconFR are online. They are in French, but I am giving the link here, just in case it is needed:
http://dl.afpy.org/pycon-fr-09/python_scientifique/index.html

01 Jul

PhD proposal on material-science modeling with Python

Philippe Baucour from the ‘Unniversité de Franche Comté’ sent me an email saying that he was looking for the rare PhD candidate that would be able to do numerical modeling and material science on top of high-quality Python coding. I can sympathise with this quest: it is very hard to find someone who codes well, [...]

01 Jul

Mumbles on object-oriented designs: framework objects and data containers

I recently sent on a mailing list a few thoughts object-oriented design, so I might as well also be ridiculous on my blog.
I find that in object oriented design, there are two kinds of objects:

A first kind is the object encoding logics. This is an object for which clever and complex design will hold together [...]