The Python Programming Language
After months of intensive discussion (more than a 1000 emails in dozens of threads spread over two mailing lists, and a couple of hundred additional private...
0 replies - 1275 views - 05/11/13 by Eli Bendersky in Articles
Are video codecs written in JavaScript the future?
Mozilla has been showing off its new ORBX.js, a video codec roughly comparable to H.264 that can be...
0 replies - 1904 views - 05/06/13 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles
In Guido van Rossum's PyCon 2013 keynote, he presents "a new,
interoperable approach to asynchronous I/O that is being developed for
inclusion in Python...
0 replies - 1228 views - 05/03/13 by Shannon Behrens in Articles
A handful of dice can make a decent normal random number generator, good enough for classroom demonstrations. I wrote about this a while ago.
My original post...
0 replies - 2390 views - 04/30/13 by John Cook in Articles
In this seriously in-depth Pycon talk, we learn how to use Python to scrape data from web sources not conventionally built to supply it:
0 replies - 558 views - 04/30/13 by Eric Gregory in Articles
As the maintainer of the connection pool for PyMongo, the official MongoDB driver for Python, I've gotten far more intimate knowledge of Python threads...
0 replies - 724 views - 04/29/13 by A. Jesse Jiryu Davis in Articles
Wind back the clock to the late 1970's. Yes, there were computers in those days.
Some of my earliest billable gigs where conversions from old OS to new...
0 replies - 2565 views - 04/19/13 by Steven Lott in Articles
An Innovative New Sales Strategy: More Puppies!
These guys ran an A/B test to see if a picture of a puppy increased clicks. Turns out, it more than doubled...
0 replies - 2040 views - 04/17/13 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles
Today's quick tip is something that was widely retweeted after my "Debugging HTTP" talk at the ever-fabulous WhiskyWeb conference last weekend. When working...
0 replies - 1243 views - 04/16/13 by Lorna Mitchell in Articles
Speaking of my package Toro, I've just released version 0.5. Toro provides semaphores, queues, and so on, for advanced control flows with Tornado coroutines....
0 replies - 440 views - 04/13/13 by A. Jesse Jiryu Davis in Articles
I’ve been playing around with some code to spin up AWS instances using Fabric and Boto and one thing that I wanted to do was define a...
0 replies - 1814 views - 04/10/13 by Mark Needham in Articles
No to NoUIYou may have heard someone say “the best UI is no UI,” or noticed the NoUI hashtag flying around recently. Timo Arnall critiques this sort of...
0 replies - 2846 views - 04/01/13 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles
In this session you'll see how ZeroMQ - a flexible, lightweight message broker - and gevent - a coroutine-based networking library - are used to create a...
0 replies - 2209 views - 03/18/13 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles
WTFM - Write the F*cking Manual Actually
authoring software product/website manuals will not only help you
understand the product better, but more...
0 replies - 2830 views - 03/11/13 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles
TL;DR: Check out celery-s3, it lets you store Celery task results in S3.
Celery has good support for a variety of different message brokers – RabbitMQ,...
0 replies - 1226 views - 03/05/13 by Rob Golding in Articles
