Archive for the ‘Python’ Category
Friday, May 16th, 2008
I left Toronto for Austin mid-day Wednesday, and got back at midnight last night. Lots happened in the interim, so here's a linkandthoughtdump (which I bet actually is one word in German):
Gave a talk about Beautiful Code to the Austin Python Users' Group Wednesday at Enthought's swanky offices. (They're ...
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Tuesday, October 9th, 2007
Via Mike Fletcher:
We will be holding our regular PyGTA meeting next Tuesday, the 16th of October. Topic proposed is: Continuations, Tasklets, Co-routines and Micro-threading. Be the first on your block to be able to say "I broke my brain with Python!" This is the ever-so-neat deep-dark ...
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Friday, August 31st, 2007
After last week's sprint at Google, the first alpha of Python 3.0 is available. This is the release that breaks backward compatibility in order to get rid of some warts---not enough and not enough for some people, but it's still a big step forward for the languages. Kudos to all ...
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Monday, March 26th, 2007
Alex Martelli is now at Google; here's a video of him talking about design patterns in Python (notes available as PDF). I'll post the second part when it appears.
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Friday, October 13th, 2006
Barry has been part of the Python development team for yonks; this article is the first of two (or more) that describe how Python is supposed to manage memory, and how to find out what's actually going on. Good debugging tips for systems geeks...
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Friday, September 22nd, 2006
An extensive annotated list of testing tools for Python --- lots of useful links, including many I hadn't seen before.
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Wednesday, September 20th, 2006
This post titled "Ruby vs. Python - why no-one should care" resonates. The argument is that the languages are similar enough that there's really nothing to choose between them, so stick with whichever you learn first. Now Erlang, on the other hand --- I've always wondered why there isn't ...
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