Disasters happen: coffee spills on a laptop, electronics are dropped, hard disks fail or become corrupt. The combination of Conda environments and version control provides a near-bullet-proof disaster mitigation strategy. We will also discuss disaster recovery for when disasters happen. Topics covered in this post: Disaster MitigationDisaster Recovery Click here for a list of related... Continue Reading →
Python for Scientists – Version Control
Do you have 15+ versions of your manuscript/thesis/report? Maybe they have names such as report.doc, report_pd_edits.doc, report_final.doc, report_final_v3.doc, etc.? At some point there are so many files you have to filter by modification date to know which one you were working on last. Or maybe you accidentally saved over a document and lost a week... Continue Reading →