Python! (cartoon)
XKCD has been trying Python in place of Perl
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Python: Cooperative + Preemptive Concurrency
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I've just uploaded Fibra 2 to the cheeseshop. Fibra 2 includes the promised non-blocking plugin, which allows a generator based task to momentarily... more »
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Erlang for Python programmers: Part V
List comprehensions is very familiar topic for Python programmer. It’s a syntactic sugar which provides a succinct notation for producing elements in... more »
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The World of ECMAScript
So I did a little bit of digging and I've pulled together something fun: I call it "The World of ECMAScript".
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On Religion (why I'm an ignorant C programmer and don't know what an object is)
Gavin makes a great argument for a more pragmatic approach to object design, very well written.
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Developer efficiency myths and truths
bloid via blogs.techrepublic.com.com
If you read the ads in development-related magazines or on Web sites, you would think that solving development inefficiency is a great path to making... more »
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The Django admin interface optimized for iPhone/iPod touch
I’m very glad to introduce to you django-mobileadmin 0.1, something which I desperately needed because using the Django admin interface is just kind... more »
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Adding Keyboard Shortcuts to Your Web User Interface
Keyboard shortcuts can make an application significantly quicker to use; that's why desktop applications have keyboard-triggered menus. Ivan Pepelnjak... more »
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Your language deficiency is not a feature
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Recently I came across this post on www.builderau.com.au. The article is talking about how the author was attempting to figure out how to put a... more »
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The Mojo of Dojo
bloid via onlamp.com
Dojo is an incredibly powerful toolkit that provides a wealth of web development utilities that you don't want to miss out on. In addition to coming... more »
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I'm Really Digging F#
Lately, I've been spending some quality time with Microsoft's F# language. So far, I'm completely enamored with the brevity and clarity of the... more »
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Django: Security fix released
Today we're releasing a fix for a security vulnerability discovered in Django's internationalization framework. The complete details are below, but... more »
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Lisp for Agile Teams
Paragent is a web-based, open source IT administration tool implemented in... Common Lisp? In their latest blog entry, the Paragent developers... more »
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Python - List Comprehensions Leak Variables
One thing to remember when using List Comprehensions is that they "leak" their temporary iteration variable to the outside.
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Ode to the Python Quick Reference (Ruby Needs One!)
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Not only is this the first place that I look, it's a wonderful way to browse the language features and see what's new. It's also an excellent history... more »
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Respect C Programmers
During last few weeks I noticed quite a few blog articles and online discussions dedicated to something awful: bashing C as a language and C... more »
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Writing Python modules in C with SWIG
The Python C API, while very well put together, is still C and therefore requires a lot of time an effort to understand, let alone use. But every now... more »
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Make Firefox Twice as Fast and Much More Stable Easily
A must have extension for all javascript programmers is Firebug. It is my favorite extension in firefox - bar none. I cannot imagine how I managed to... more »
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Why the Waterfall Model Failed
The problem was that the Waterfall Model was arrogant. The arrogance came from the fact that we believed that we could always engineer the perfect... more »
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Two Weeks With Django
Okay, I’ve played off the name of the recent blog Two Months With Ruby on Rails but this blog is actually more coincidental. About 2 weeks ago, I got... more »
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Java from a functional perspective
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Not long ago a project required me to learn a little Java. As a long-time elitist functional programmer, I was not extremely excited. Due to the low... more »
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How Studying SICP Made Me a Better Programmer
While working through the problems of SICP section 2-2 this week, I had a flash of insight. Things that had frustrated and stymied me for years were... more »
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ocamljs, OCaml to Javascript compiler
It can be hard to go back to a conventional language once you’ve enjoyed the freedoms of typed functional programming. That’s why, when we needed to... more »
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Concurrency in newLISP
Threaded applications are considered to be so difficult to implement properly that programmers are often encouraged to avoid them unless absolutely... more »
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