Sometimes you need to pull a remote branch and want to accept all their commits (and history) and override your own repository. It’s quite simple if you do a pull, don’t care about unrelated histories and accept all their code Read more…
Introduction to Software Development Processes Gabry defines the Software Development Methodology to be a set of related activities that lead to the production of the software (2017). While this is the simplest concept of the processes, there are many formalised Read more…
Introduction to Software Reuse Software reuse is the process of creating software from antecedent and extant components. There are a range of approaches that can be taken when following a reuse pattern, these can usually be grouped into one of the Read more…
Just a quick note: You are probably looking for a Linux command called `dtrace`. If you’re on a mac then you are probably looking for `dtruss`.
Waterfall and Agile are by far the most commonly used software development processes, however, within them, there are many different styles of software development used in the management of software development projects. While each has their own advantages and disadvantages, Read more…
Big Data shares what is commonly termed the V properties or characteristics such as Velocity, Volume and Variety which are amongst the most typical or frequently repeated. Taking into account security issues and privacy implications with such large datasets is Read more…
You’ve just pushed something to a Git repository and you immediately regret it! Run git log to see what the commit id was: git log Take the first 7 characters of the commit SHA id and do the following: git revert Read more…
If you ever get the following error when trying to install a Pip module under Python: Could not fetch URL https://pypi.python.org/simple/****/: There was a problem confirming the ssl certificate: [SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed (_ssl.c:777) - skipping Then an easy Read more…
The world of Big Data started out as a way of storing and querying obscene amounts of information by comparison to what yesteryears were able to achieve. However, most value in said data is primarily found in the real time Read more…
So you want to learn to program in Python and you don’t have a lot of time? That’s okay! Once you grasp some of the key concepts and ways of thinking, it will all come to you. So let’s get Read more…