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With Matplotlib, the possibilities are endless. From simple line plots and bar charts to intricate scatter plots and heatmaps, this library empowers you to transform raw data into visually stunning masterpieces. It follows a "just-get-it-done" approach, allowing you to quickly visualize your data without getting lost in complex syntax. Once you grasp the basics, you'll find yourself effortlessly customizing colors, labels, and even exploring advanced features to make your visualizations truly shine.

I had an interesting conversation with one of my colleagues the other day. He came to me and asked a rather simple question but little did I know it would transform into an internal journey of evaluating how I’ve changed my perspective on the working team environment. To my surprise, he asked with a confident tone, almost certainly convinced of his ideas, a question I can shortly paraphrase: “How can I help this team to be more productive?” “Our colleagues seem not to be very engaged because they cannot take full ownership of the problems we face”, he added. So easy to state as a question. Nonetheless, the answer got entangled with my internal reality very quickly. Inside my head, many warnings and thoughts voraciously spun towards my mouth, willing to give a quick answer. It was hard, but I had to bite my tongue and hold them a bit. I’ve made an effort to get back to him and focus my attention on his concerns.

After troubleshooting a MongoDB 4.2.1 instance running in my local development environment I have just learnt a couple of things that may be of interest for you. My target was to build a dockerized MongoDB server in my Elixir project and build a list of databases on it (7 indeed). Previously I was using the OS installed MongoDB version but it end up been a hassle to keep up to date with the new versions. Then I decided naively to simple pull the docker container and run it but as everything that runs with a single command... it didn't work. I let you here the steps I've follow to make it work.

Trying to implement new algorithm in Clojure I've discovered John Conway's  Game of Life and I started to code a prototype of the implementation. When I was coding this rules I got very much attracted to it. Here is a short history of how I got into it and what happened after I changed the rules for the game.

Upgrading to Yosemite and reinstalling PHP 5.6 was not as simple as it could be. If you happend to be running over the same issues I've found a solution to make it work.

After working a bit with angular 1 I've found some issues to automate promises testing. I had figure out that testing HTTP communication is not always a simple endevour and it could take some effort to test a controller that handles a couple of API calls and reacts on them.

I'm working in a continous delivery solution for a couple of applications and one of them includes a series of Dashboards made with Dashing and I've found and interesting case of deployment that I'll try to reproduce: I've tested the deployment in Ubuntu 13 on an Amazon EC2 instance. It was provisioned with chef to have a basic Nginx-Puma and later Nginx-Unicorn config to run the dashboard over Ruby 2.1.1