Technical and Specialized Skills
From Christoph's Personal Wiki
Revision as of 02:36, 5 October 2015 by Christoph (Talk | contribs) (→Cloud computing and virtual environments)
This article will present a list of the technical and specialized skills I have as wells as links to articles I have written on each of them. I have been actively and professionally involved with the majority of the following since May 2000 (see: Curriculum Vitae for details).
Contents
Computer operating systems
- Primary OS: Linux (32-bit/64-bit; distros: CentOS {favourite}, SuSE, Mandriva, Slackware, and Ubuntu)
- Gentoo (still learning but loving this distro!)
- Unix (used this during my time in academia)
- Mac OS
Cloud computing and virtual environments
Computer languages, scripting, etc
- Python (+Pandas) — 2006-present
- Perl (+CGI) — 1999-present
- C (+MPI/MPICH) — 2000-present
- Fortran 77 — 2004-present
- MySQL — 2002-present
Web Oriented
- PHP (+PEAR, Smarty)
- RESTful APIs (especially via cURL and/or Python's urllib module; see this article for lots of examples)
- Cascading Style Sheets (CSS; I use Bootstrap for all of my projects)
- HTML/XHTML
- Django
- web2py
- Ajax
- JavaScript
- SOAP
- mod_rewrite / .htaccess / robots.txt
Shell scripting languages and techniques
see: Category:Linux Command Line Tools and Category:Scripting languages for detailed listing.
- awk / gawk
- sed
- Bash
- zsh (my newest and favourite shell. Still learning all that it has to offer, which is a lot!)
- csh / tcsh
- man (i.e., creating man pages for custom apps)
- make / gmake (I use this for more than just compiling code!)
- regular expressions
Graphical scripts
- PostScript (and PDF)
- R (programming language)
- TeX / LaTeX
Linux System Administration, Networking, and Security
Note: Everything listed here is Linux-related.
- Remote login, file transfer, etc.: SSH (+scp), rsync, FTP, dsh (Distributed Shell), GNU parallel
- Firewall: iptables (via the CLI and, e.g., Gibralter)
- Troubleshooting toolbox: iostat, sysstat, tcpdump, ethtool, ps, dmesg, top, free, dmidecode, mtr, bwm-ng, ping, dig, traceroute, /proc files, /var/log files, curl, strace, find, lsof, lspci, modprobe/lsmod, netstat, grep, etc.
- crontab
- Network filesystems: NFS, NTFS, NAS, Samba, etc.
- Tape drives (mt/st)
- Email Server (e.g., Postfix)
- Printing: CUPS
- openPBS
- GPG / PGP
- Etc., etc.
Databases
- MySQL / MariaDB
- SQLite
Web Applications
Note: The following is an incomplete list.
- LAMP (Linux / Apache HTTP Server / MySQL / PHP)
- Nginx
- WikiMedia — the web app running this site.
- Django
- WordPress (+bbPress; see: my personal blog.)
- Drupal (see: my personal drupal page. Note that I also develop modules for Drupal)
- phpBB (+MODs, SEOs, and Fetch All) (see: my personal phpBB forum. Note that this is a private forum not open to the public.)
- Smarty
- Coppermine Photo Gallery
Software (*nix)
see: Category:Bioinformatics and Category:Crystallography for more.
- Previous developer / programmer / maintainer of: Pymmlib, TLSMD, Raster3D
- Wireshark
- ImageMagick
- BLAST (standalone and webserver)
- Clustal
- CCP4 (contributor)
- EMBOSS
- MrBayes
- CHARMM
- DOT
- GnuPlot (+C API), Grace / xmgrace
- RasMol, Jmol, PyMOL (+scripting)
- matplotlib
- Sage (System for Algebra and Geometry Experimentation)
- GIMP (+various image generating techniques)
- OpenOffice / LibreOffice
- vi (used for pretty much everything I do)
- Etc, etc. (Linux has been my primary OS for work and home use since 1999)