RIP John Hunter: the loss of a great man

John Hunter, the author of matplotlib passed away yesterday after a short battle against cancer. John gave the keynote at the scipy 2012 conference a few weeks ago, and was diagnosed with cancer just on his return from the conference. It is a shock to me that that a friend …

in programming · 30 August 2012 Read

Want features? Just code

Somebody just sent an email on a user’s mailing list for an open-source scientific package entitled “Feature foo: why is package bar not up to the task?”. To quote him:

Is there ANY plan for having such a module in package bar?? I think (personally) that this is a …

in programming · 08 March 2012 Read