Adjusting Jupyter notebook Font Size

For screen presentations, I found the original font-size to be too small. Therefore, adjusting the font size permanently would be nice to have. You can do so by adding a custom Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) to your Jupyter configuration directory (usually in $HOME/.jupyter/). First you add a subdirectory called “custom” to your Jupyter configuration directory …
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Going for Python 3.8 with Conda

In order to migrate to the latest Python release before the Anaconda Download packages haven been upgraded to it (in my case Python 3.8), I had to first upgrade my Conda installation: And then create a new Python 3.8 environment: Unfortunately, a couple of packages are not yet there, so installing the full Anaconda package …
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Globals are not global in Python

Well, the title already says it. Globals are module wide, not global global…. This means, that if you do The global would not change. This is because the global keyword only makes variables accessible to the module level – not beyond. So if you instead of importing the module execute the file, it will run …
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Running a Jupyter Notebook remotely in single line

In order to run a Jupyter Notebook on a remote server (here: SERVER), one usually first opens a shell, logs in on the remote server, starts the jupyter notebook server. Then usually you open a new shell, and forward a local port using ssh. And finally you open the notebook webpage in your browser (here: Firefox). …
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Eclipse/Texlipse: bibtex file in different directory

I recently ran into the problem that I have a common library where i store all my Bibtex references, but Eclipse/Texlipse refused to find it, although I linked the library file from within the project folder. The solution is rather simple, as it just requires setting the BIBINPUTS evironment variable, so Bibtex can find the …
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Eclipse/Subversive: DH keypair issues

I recently had the issue that one of the SVN servers that I regularly use refused to connect anymore. In the command line, everything wored as intended, but using Subversive within Eclipse did not work. I got a popup window, containing the following information: java.lang.RuntimeException: Could not generate DH keypair The problem was, that the …
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Python autocompletion in VIM

Having autocompletion (and some other nice stuff) for Python in VIM is not only a nice feature, but something allowing you to be more efficient when programming Python. First see the result: Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNMjbaimk9g To make the functionality (and color scheme) available, download the tarball (pythonVim.tar.gz) and extract it in your home directory (i.e. /home/your_user_name), …
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Scrum mit Redmine und Eclipse

Nachdem ich heute Redmine aktualisiert, den Eclipse Redmine-Mylyn-Connector neu eingerichtet und auch das Redmine ‘Backlogs’ Plugin aktualisiert habe, möche ich an dieser Stelle einen kurzen Erfahrungsbericht liefern. Zwar setzte ich nicht direkt Scrum als Entwicklungsprozess ein (dazu ist die Anzahl der beteiligten Personen zu gering), jedoch verwende ich einige der in Scrum enthaltenen Methoden. Ein …
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Eclipse Indigo RC und PHP Development Tools 3.0

Der Eclipse Indigo Release steht vor der Tür (aka. Version 3.7, Releasedatum 22.6.2011), und dementsprechend laufen auch die Vorbereitungen für die nächste Version der PHP Development Tools (kurz Eclipse PDT) auf Hochtouren. Da der offzizielle Release Canditate der Eclipse for PHP Developers Edititon aber weiter auf sich warten läßt, hier nun eine Kurzbeschreibung wie man die …
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