I recently got stuck trying to plot multiple figures in parallel with Matplotlib. It took five hours to find a two-line fix to make it work. Afterwards I spent even more hours learning about multiprocessing in order t...
Python 2 vs 3 mismatches have been causing problems in our CentOS 7 server adminstration. We use Ansible for automatic configuration and continuous integration deployments. A few of our long-used jobs recently broke b...
There are known challenges when publishing technical documentation / reports when using PDF or other desktop office formats which is why we endeavor at the BGS to publish our documentation using HTML
A number of BGS projects are using the open source Parse Server platform. Previously an MBaaS (mobile backend as a service) purchased by Facebook in 2013, Parse was closed in 2017 and subsequently open-sourced under ...
Some background, a development team within the BGS Informatics department were tasked with creating an API to expose sensor data (in this case sensor data from instrumentation placed within boreholes). The API to be p...