The lightning talk I gave at PyCon is now online. I talked for 4½ minutes on Toro, the package I wrote to provide locks, events, conditions, semaphores,...
0 replies - 1482 views - 04/15/13 by A. Jesse Jiryu Davis in Articles
Recently I was puzzled by some behavior Solr was showing me. I scratched my head and called over a colleague. We couldn’t quite figure out what was going on....
0 replies - 2170 views - 04/15/13 by Doug Turnbull in Articles
Cassandra is known for its good write performance. But there are scenarios, when you might run into trouble – especially when particular use case...
0 replies - 1662 views - 04/14/13 by Daniel Bartl in Articles
The Apache Subversion team has announced two new releases: Subversion 1.7.9 and 1.6.21.Subversion 1.7.9 improves the error messages for...
0 replies - 1830 views - 04/14/13 by Jessica Thornsby in Articles
Last 3 months has been the most exciting and yet challenging period of my life. I migrated from Sri Lanka to Singapore to join with an early-stage startup...
0 replies - 3240 views - 04/14/13 by Lakshan Perera in Articles
Following up my last post on how to download files from the cloud with R...
dl_from_GoogleD <- function(output, key, format) {
##...
0 replies - 2534 views - 04/14/13 by Kay Cichini in Articles
This Pycon 2013 talk dives into Kivy, an open source Python library for building cross-platform GUI and mobile apps:
Kivy is running on Linux,...
0 replies - 3829 views - 04/12/13 by Eric Gregory in Articles
The Odd/Even sort is a sorting algorithm which uses the concept of the Bubble Sort to move elements around. Unlike Bubble sort, the Odd/Even sort...
0 replies - 1812 views - 04/12/13 by Giuseppe Vettigli in Articles
I spend a lot of time writing Python package documentation in reST. Nevertheless, I find reST's markup permanently unlearnable, so I format docs by trial and...
0 replies - 1588 views - 04/12/13 by A. Jesse Jiryu Davis in Articles
Hibernate is one of the most used ORM Java frameworks out there. It is really simple to use, just add few annotations and you're ready to go. However, it is...
0 replies - 1256 views - 04/11/13 by Armel Gouriou in Articles
Taylor Ling just posted an update to his awesome free Android UI Design Kit! The new update adds support for Nexus 4 resolution (768x1280) as...
0 replies - 5931 views - 04/11/13 by Juhani Lehtimaki in Articles
Here is a usefull snippet that I stole from qdap::url_dl to download files from my Dropbox to the working directory. Argument x is the...
0 replies - 2171 views - 04/11/13 by Kay Cichini in Articles
You have the power to update your own profile on the#ReclaimOpen Github repository, by editing and submitting a pull request. Here are some steps you will need...
0 replies - 1054 views - 04/11/13 by Kin Lane in Articles
Learn how to use property animations, specifically ObjectAnimator, to perform various view animations.
Compare this approach to that of the ViewAnimations...
0 replies - 883 views - 04/10/13 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles
WYSIWYG and WYSIWYM Editors
Looking to use a rich text editor in your app? I researched existing editors and picked the best of available solutions....
0 replies - 758 views - 04/09/13 by Andrey Prikaznov in Articles
