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Georges Dubus

Georges Dubus

Researcher among the engineers, engineers among the researchers. Python and Haskell, among other things.

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Share scripts that have dependencies with Nix
nixos

Share scripts that have dependencies with Nix

Writing and sharing scripts is essential to productivity in development teams. But if you want the script to work everywhere, you can only depend on the tools that are everywhere. That usually means

  • Georges Dubus
    Georges Dubus
3 min read
scala

A column-centric Spark-ML Pipeline DSL

The Pipeline API from Spark-ML is quite useful, and we use it a lot at work, but I find it quite verbose at times. Here is what I'm talking about: val first_variable_

  • Georges Dubus
    Georges Dubus
3 min read

Declarative blog setup with docker-compose

Docker is neat. I don't believe it's the ultimate solution for all our software packaging and delivery problems, but still, as a way to easily run something someone else has made, it's neat.

  • Georges Dubus
    Georges Dubus
3 min read
python

Garçon, there's a catamorphism in my Python

I've got a little project where I want to build a document from a template, and some data that are stored in a JSON (or YAML) file. This is pretty straighforward, but I've

  • Georges Dubus
    Georges Dubus
3 min read
python

Through the lens of Haskell: exploring new ideas for library design

At EuroPython 2014, there was a talk about "What Python can learn from Haskell", which was very interesting, and seems to have sparkled the PEP 484 (type annotations in python 3.

  • Georges Dubus
    Georges Dubus
1 min read
misc

API wrappers: Danaïdes writing specifications

API are awesome. They enable us to combine convenient applications with the expressive power of programming. They even create interactions between services not designed to work together. When you want to use an

  • Georges Dubus
    Georges Dubus
2 min read
nixos

This last few weeks in NixOS

Welcome to a new issue of This Week in NixOS. Nix is a purely functional package manager that aims at solving old problems with a new approach, and NixOS is the distribution based

  • Georges Dubus
    Georges Dubus
2 min read
nixos

This couple of weeks in NixOS

Welcome to a new issue of This Week in NixOS. Nix is a purely functional package manager that aims at solving old problems with a new approach, and NixOS is the distribution based

  • Georges Dubus
    Georges Dubus
1 min read
nixos

This Week in NixOS, third issue

Welcome to the third issue of This Week in NixOS. Nix is a purely functional package manager that aims at solving old problems with a new approach, and NixOS is the distribution based

  • Georges Dubus
    Georges Dubus
1 min read
nixos

This Week in NixOS, second issue

Welcome to the second issue of This Week in NixOS. Nix is a purely functional package manager that aims at solving old problems with a new approach, and NixOS is the distribution based

  • Georges Dubus
    Georges Dubus
1 min read
nixos

This Week in NixOS, first issue

Welcome to the first issue of This Week in NixOS. Nix is a purely functional package manager that aims at solving old problems with a new approach, and NixOS is the distribution based

  • Georges Dubus
    Georges Dubus
1 min read
python

Fast scraping in python with asyncio

Web scraping is one of those subjects that often appears in python discussions. There are many ways to do this, and there doesn't seem to be one best way. There are fully fledged

  • Georges Dubus
    Georges Dubus
4 min read
python

Pyramid advanced configuration tactics for nice apps and libs

Pyramid is a great framework, and one of the things that makes it great is its configuration system, which provide both a great way to organize an application, and an elegant system to

  • Georges Dubus
    Georges Dubus
1 min read
python

Quick authentication on pyramid with persona

A few days ago, the first beta of persona was released, and I thought it would be nice to try it as a authentication mechanism in my next project. For the pyramid framework,

  • Georges Dubus
    Georges Dubus
4 min read
misc

Good evening ladies and gentlemen, parlez vous français ?

Hi, I'm Georges Dubus, I'm a french PhD student doing some hacking on his free time, and here is my tentative of a blog. I have wanted to start a blog for a

  • Georges Dubus
    Georges Dubus
1 min read
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