The Python Programming Language

As I mentioned in my previous blog post I’ve been hacking on a product taxonomy and I wanted to create a ‘CHILD’ relationship between a...
0 replies - 2417 views - 05/19/13 by Mark Needham in Articles

A Domain-Specific Language (DSL) can provide some intellectual leverage.
We can always write long and convoluted programs in a general-purpose
programming...
0 replies - 2191 views - 05/17/13 by Steven Lott in Articles

Modular DOMReady
A new tool for making your web development life a little easier. I love the site design this guy has too.
NES Drawn in 100%...
0 replies - 1812 views - 05/17/13 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

Suppose you want to know when your great-grandmother was born. You can’t find the year recorded anywhere. But you did discover an undated letter from her...
0 replies - 1618 views - 05/15/13 by John Cook in Articles

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 - 2318 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 - 2076 views - 05/06/13 by Mitch Pronschinske 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 - 2459 views - 04/30/13 by John Cook 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 - 2633 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 - 2097 views - 04/17/13 by Mitch Pronschinske 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 - 2028 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 - 2931 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 - 2295 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 - 2868 views - 03/11/13 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

A Definitive Developer's Guide To Images
This is a good one to save and read later when you start building that app that works with a myriad of image...
0 replies - 3179 views - 02/27/13 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

The latest algorithm that we had to code in Algorithms 2 was the Knapsack problem which is as follows:The knapsack problem or rucksack...
0 replies - 5652 views - 02/26/13 by Mark Needham in Articles