Training Tech Shorts

This is a series of short lessons in various technologies useful to our work.

Introduction to VSCode

VSCode

Remote development

IDE

If using Mac/Linux installation of VSCode, that’s all for setup

Introduction to Pixi

Pixi

Package managment

Command runner

Pixi is a package management tool that can serve as a replacement for Conda or Mamba. It is designed to be faster, multithreaded, and flexible. Like Conda, Pixi environments…

Introduction to Apptainer

Apptainer

Singularity

Containers

Package managment

Lesson plan based around materials from CodeRefinery

Quarto to Confluence

Quarto

Literate programming

Confluence

As of Quarto version 1.3 there is support for publishing documents to Confluence. Quarto can be used to publish single pages or entire Quarto projects to Confluence.

Introduction to Gitpod

Git

Github

Version control

Gitpod

Gitpod is a developer environment that runs in your browser. In order to use it, you need a Git repository (either on GitHub, GitLab or Bitbucket). Gitpod opens up a…

Introduction to Quarto

Quarto

Literate programming

In order to use Quarto you need to install Quarto first. The easiest way is to get the package for your desired platform directly from https://quarto.org/docs/get-started/.…

Introduction to Git

Git

Version control

Git is nowadays the most widely used distributed version control system, especially in software development. By opposition to centralized version control systems, with Git…

Collaboration on Github

Git

Github

Version control

Collaboration

This section is a guide describing one method of collaborating on Github. We focus on the framework that we use to make reference material for future us and others new to…