James McPherson

Data wrangler, software engineer, systems programmer, cyclist. Unix (mostly Solaris) for aeons. I talk C, Python, SQL and Makefiles. I take big pictures and create architecture to make them a reality.

Work

Data Wrangler
Location

Brisbane, Australia
Joined

Apr 11, 2019

James McPherson

Jul 28

A shell and GNU awk oneliner

#quick #shell #awk

1 min read

Recent Comments

re: Tech Acronyms Made Easy Jul 29

Another really useful acronym is SOLID en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

re: What is your fitness routine? Jun 24

6 days a week I get up at 0430 and go for a bike ride. On a w...

re: Humanity in Software Jun 24

I've just started a new role and it's daunting to be in the n...

re: How much coffee do you drink? Jun 24

A double-double espresso every morning. Sometimes another dou...

re: Right way store datetime to database. Jun 2

If I really, really have to store a timestamp in a db column ...

re: Linux commands for sysadmins (but not only, part 1) Jun 2

I'd have started with saying that the man command is your fri...

re: Programmer Burnout is real and it is important to know how to overcome it Jun 2

I've found that vigorous exercise is also an excellent time t...

re: Git log filtering and how to show a better history tree Jun 2

I'm stealing that alias :-) Very useful, thankyou

James McPherson

Jun 28

A (not so) brief introduction to using the Python database API

#python #database #oracle #postgres

1 min read

James C. McPherson

Oct 15 '19

How I started learning Apache Spark

#apachespark #etl #python

1 min read

James McPherson

Oct 14 '19

Sentiment Analysis of Australian political hashtags

#sentimentanalysis #python #microservices

1 min read

James McPherson

Oct 4 '19

A microservice making electorate info more accessible

#microservices #python #flask #etl

1 min read

James McPherson

skills/languages

learning/trying

A shell and GNU awk oneliner

Recent Comments

A (not so) brief introduction to using the Python database API

How I started learning Apache Spark

Sentiment Analysis of Australian political hashtags

A microservice making electorate info more accessible

James McPherson

A shell and GNU awk oneliner

A (not so) brief introduction to using the Python database API

How I started learning Apache Spark

Sentiment Analysis of Australian political hashtags

A microservice making electorate info more accessible

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