The Python Programming Language
This week I bought Rick Copeland’s MongoDB with Python and Ming
eBook from Amazon. It just came out in July 2012, so I figured I should
check it out and...
0 replies - 1413 views - 08/13/12 by Mike Driscoll in Articles
Sometimes writing callback-style asynchronous code with Tornado is a pain. But the real hurt comes when you want to refactor your async code into reusable...
0 replies - 1738 views - 07/25/12 by A. Jesse Jiryu Davis in Articles
In the 1940s, the first computer programmers were all women. That only changed later. Quoting “Researcher reveals how ‘Computer Geeks’ replaced...
0 replies - 2974 views - 07/15/12 by Axel Rauschmayer in Articles
Sometimes it might be nice to be able to test a DNS server’s output,
such as with a continuous monitoring system, or as a validation tool
when migrating...
0 replies - 2742 views - 06/28/12 by Joe Miller in Articles
My friend Ed’s capacity to automate stuff is quite awesome. Yesterday
he automated a way of making our Continuous Integration system alert us
when one of...
0 replies - 2323 views - 06/27/12 by James Betteley in Articles
New Relic recently added support for python to their awesome web
application performance tool, and I have been playing with it on a
number of projects. ...
0 replies - 1931 views - 06/17/12 by Ken Cochrane in Articles
In December, I made a blog post about being happy. A anonymous (of course) commenter said:
Hey Rob. 5 months? Are you really this
shortsighted?...
1 replies - 4703 views - 06/02/12 by Rob Galanakis in Articles
I'm not even interested in psychology. But. This kind of thing seems to come up once in a great while.
You're asked (or "forced") to work with...
3 replies - 5644 views - 06/01/12 by Steven Lott in Articles
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...
1 replies - 4126 views - 05/20/12 by Stoimen Popov in Articles
No, it’s not Knuth’s “The Art of Programming”.
I’m talking about quite an easy-to-read (compared to TAoP) book, which,
in fact, does not...
1 replies - 12227 views - 05/18/12 by Grigory Javadyan in Articles
Language, Tools, Chickens, Eggs, Java and Python
Too much of programming is intimately tied up with the tools to support the development of the...
0 replies - 4509 views - 05/11/12 by Steven Lott in Articles
Each natural number that is divisible only by 1 and itself is prime.
Prime numbers appear to be more interesting to humans than other
numbers. Why is that...
1 replies - 9053 views - 05/09/12 by Stoimen Popov in Articles
Bringing a programmer in for an interview and a coding test can lead
to some interesting experiences, both for the interviewer and the
interviewee. Most...
8 replies - 20558 views - 05/02/12 by Brian Kelly in Articles
Read this Computerworld posting: Should the CIO know how to code?
The answer is "Yes."
The examples of "well-functioning non-technical...
2 replies - 7947 views - 05/02/12 by Steven Lott in Articles
Do you know what day of the week was the day you were born? Monday or
maybe Saturday? Well, perhaps you know that. Everybody knows the day
he’s born on,...
3 replies - 10615 views - 04/24/12 by Stoimen Popov in Articles
