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.
Stoimen Popov05/09/12
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Stoimen Popov is back with another episode in his Algorithm of the Week series, and this week he tackles prime numbers. Stoimen begins with a very basic (brute force) approach, and then refines his algorithm to be far more effective, though it still works best for smaller numbers.
William Soprano05/08/12
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This talk will go through the deployment system that we have built at Urban Airship and introducing the concepts of caching/covering the best practives of using Djangos cache backend.
Eli Bendersky05/08/12
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In my opinion, to make the migration easier, it makes sense to write code that can run on both Python 2 and 3, at least for some time.
Steve Ferg05/08/12
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In this post I will show you what the wrong end of the stick looks like, and point out why I think it is wrong. And I will show you what I think the right end of the stick looks like.
William Soprano05/07/12
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Django con keynote speaker gives his two cents on social communities involving developers
Chase Seibert05/03/12
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In this post, Chase Seibert discusses two asset managers for Django that bundle static resources for deployment to a CDN. With both libraries still in development, Chase ran into a couple of issues starting off and he tells us how to avoid these.
Chase Seibert05/07/12
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Do you know how many database queries your Django pages are making? If you're like me, you probably don't know exactly. That's the beauty of the ORM; it abstracts database access to such a level that you rarely have to think about it.
Corey Goldberg05/06/12
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Corey Goldberg gives us some basic instructions for searching Splunk and Python and then walks us through the process of using the tools.
Pros and Cons of SaaS Performance Monitoring