Some quick tips to bring your Julia software to the next level — After using Julia for about 6 years now (wow, it really has been that long) I have truly fallen in love with this programming language over all other programming languages. In some ways, this comes down to personal preference — multiple dispatch as a paradigm feels like an incredibly natural…

How to write functions in Julia, except we review every possible way to do so. — Introduction So, Julia. What is so great about Julia as a programming language? Those coming from other programming languages likely wonder what all of the Julian fuss is about, and what makes Julia such a loved programming language by many who write it. I of course cannot speak on behalf of…

The Julia language’s ability to do parameterized abstraction is incredibly powerful! — introduction While the Julia language often has the perception of simply being a faster Python, this is not the truth about the language at all. Julia is an entirely different language of its own and offers a host of features that are incredibly unique to the language. Julia is not a…

An update on software projects in the ‘chifi’ julia ecosystem! — introduction The end of this past year has been an incredibly exciting time for me. Firstly, I have moved across the country to New Mexico and much prefer living here to where I was living prior. With this, I have made massive advancements to my largest Julia project, Olive . Furthermore…

It’s time to get back to my side project — collaborative Olive editing. — up to speed Over the course of the past two years, I have been creating the largest project I have ever set out to make on my own — Olive . Olive is an extensible notebook editor for Julia. The nucleus of this software is the parametric methodology that makes Olive extensible by…

Olive 0.0.92 is on the horizon, and the version step is going to include substantial improvements. — up to speed The largest open-source project I have sank my teeth into over the course of the past couple years has been a pure Julia notebook editor which uses multiple dispatch to load new features. After creating an entire web-development framework and many other projects to facilitate this project, I have finally…

Working with files in Julia: an in-depth overview. — introduction Programming is an activity in which we write functions to alter the nature of data. A crucial piece of that puzzle is the data itself, and this is certainly one aspect of computing which needs focus: wrangling data. There are a myriad of ways that data is obtained in programming…

My notebook editor is officially here: here’s what you need to know. — introduction It was around two years ago when I originally conceptualized what is easily the biggest project I have ever done on my own, Olive . Olive is an extensible notebook editor for Julia centered in the multiple dispatch paradigm. While the central focus of the base is editing for Data…

How the multiple dispatch paradigm makes it easier to build software over time. — unintended consequences Several years ago, I happened upon Julia — a high-performance, compiled and dynamically typed programming language targeted at Scientific computing — my domain. With my introduction to Julia came my introduction to multiple dispatch and multiple dispatch as a programming paradigm. Multiple dispatch is a programming technique that allows us…