Mark Needham05/25/12
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A common programming task is to iterate over a container of known length and do something for each item in the container. Here's an example of what it may look like in a C-like language....
Mike Driscoll05/25/12
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Getting set up with your own machine so you're ready to do core development. Using Windows OS; is the process easy or hard?
Jose Asuncion05/24/12
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This is my first post on Code Aesthetics, a new topic I am exploring. My objective is to come up with a catalog of coding styles that are easy to read. My belief is that there is a direct correlation between maintainability of code and the way it is written.
Mike Driscoll05/24/12
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As I mentioned in my last article, I figured I’d try to find something that I could patch in Python and submit it. While writing the other article, I stumbled on a minor error in the Python devguide in the Windows section.
Corey Goldberg05/23/12
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To check operational stats of your Couchbase server/cluster, you can use the telnet interface (port 11211) and issue the stats command to any individual node...
Jose Asuncion05/23/12
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I have always though that it was easy to name your services e.g if you had a User domain object then you would surely have a User Dao and a User Service.
Stoimen Popov05/22/12
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To find the minimum value into an array of items isn’t difficult. There are not many options to do that.
Mike Driscoll05/22/12
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The other day, I thought it would be fun to create a little program that could generate QR codes and show them onscreen with wxPython. Of course, I wanted to do it all with Python, so after a little looking, I came across 3 candidates...
Corey Goldberg05/21/12
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Multi-Mechanize is an open source framework for web performance and load testing. It allows you to run simultaneous python scripts to generate load (synthetic transactions) against a web site or web service.
Stoimen Popov05/21/12
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Typically multiplying two n-digit numbers require n2 multiplications. That is actually how we, humans, multiply numbers. Let’s take a look of an example in case we’ve to multiply two 2-digit numbers.
Chase Seibert05/20/12
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Here is a BASH script that builds on Drjnet's excellent script, but which also allows you to select just a small region of your screen to capture.
Grigory Javadyan05/19/12
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I am talking about C. Petzold’s “CODE”. It is a truly remarkable book about how computers work. Let me explain why I think this book is so awesome.
David Winterbottom05/18/12
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You are serving a Django application using Nginx to proxy to an Apache server running mod_wsgi and you want to allow slashes in your URL keywords.
Corey Goldberg05/17/12
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The latest release of SST (0.2.0) adds the ability to capture HAR (HTTP Archive format) output for pageload performance tracing/profiling.
Christian Posta05/17/12
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In Python, mixins allow a programmer to package a set of clearly defined and cohesive methods into a unit that can then be used to add functionality to other classes by “mixing in” these methods.
Stoimen Popov05/16/12
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Typically multiplying two n-digit numbers require n2 multiplications. That is actually how we, humans, multiply numbers. Let’s take a look of an example in case we’ve to multiply two 2-digit numbers. . .
Corey Goldberg05/16/12
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In my last two blog posts, I showed examples of using Selenium WebDriver to capture screenshots, and running in a headless (no X-server) mode. This example combines the two solutions to capture screenshots inside a virtual display.
William Soprano05/15/12
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In this video tutorial from the 2012 PyData Workshop, John Hunter, author of matplotlib is going to give you some advanced insight into the plotting library.
Giuseppe Vettigli05/14/12
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Check out this useful python snippet for to computing the prime factors of an integer.
William Soprano05/13/12
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This session will cover the challenges of creating a production application performance monitoring system for Python.
William Soprano05/11/12
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In this panel, we speak to a number of the people behind these new platforms to discuss what benefits they offer, what challenges they face, and what the Django project/community can do to encourage their growth.
Steven Lott05/11/12
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For some people, Tools Trump Language. Sadly, I've also had customers with ancient code they could no longer compile or maintain because the tools were out of support.
William Soprano05/10/12
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This video will go over how to handle many common solutions not currently described in the core documentation and give an in-depth look (with demonstration) at the how and why of several advanced security topics.
David Winterbottom05/10/12
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Solving the problem of running pip install -r requirements.txt which will not pick any commits after d636b803 until requirements.txt is updated.
Stoimen Popov05/09/12
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Run-length encoding is a data compression algorithm that helps us encode large runs of repeating items by only sending one item from the run and a counter showing how many times this item is repeated.
Pros and Cons of SaaS Performance Monitoring