DDoSaaS Miiiight Be a Little Sketchy
Surprise! If you PayPal someone to conduct a DDoS attack, things might get a little shady. Brian Krebs investigates...
0 replies - 3704 views - 05/21/13 by Eric Gregory in Articles
A few weeks back, webserver request queueing came under heightened scrutiny as rapgenius blasted Heroku for not using as much autotune as promised in...
0 replies - 1017 views - 05/08/13 by Dan Kuebrich in Articles
When I was a kid, I was really into secret codes and ciphers. I thought they were all kinds of fun. My mom thought it would be fun to use some of the ciphers I...
0 replies - 1769 views - 04/27/13 by Mike Driscoll in Articles
Every now and again, an innocent python developer checks out a new Git branch then proceeds to bang their head against a bug caused by an...
0 replies - 6411 views - 04/25/13 by David Winterbottom in Articles
Quite a few links this week for your weekend reading:
Node
Unix philosophy and Node.js: A brief discussion of the Unix philosophy and how it relates to...
0 replies - 2226 views - 04/23/13 by Larry Franks in Articles
I needed to compute the higher moments of a mixture distribution for a project I’m working on. I’m writing up the code here in case anyone else finds this...
0 replies - 2204 views - 04/19/13 by John Cook in Articles
Every week, we feature a new developer/blogger from the DZone community here and in our newsletter, catching up to find out what they're working on...
0 replies - 6219 views - 04/17/13 by Eric Gregory in Articles
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 - 1499 views - 04/15/13 by A. Jesse Jiryu Davis 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 - 3906 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 - 1852 views - 04/12/13 by Giuseppe Vettigli in Articles
The twitter API is a great tool for analyze tweets by code. In particular, the streaming API gives real time access to the global stream of tweets and, unlike...
0 replies - 2716 views - 04/02/13 by Giuseppe Vettigli in Articles
The Python stack for scientific computing is more modular than, say, R or Mathematica. Python is a general-purpose programming language that has libraries for...
0 replies - 2407 views - 04/01/13 by John Cook in Articles
I have a piece of Python code that leverages a stateful object and
was wondering how to reimplement it in the inherently stateless Clojure,
without...
1 replies - 2483 views - 03/25/13 by Jakub Holý in Articles
To make logging based debugging and diagnostics more fun, I created the following enhanced Python logging solution. It colorizes and adjusts logging output so...
1 replies - 2511 views - 03/14/13 by Mikko Ohtamaa in Articles
In my last two articles (Data in CPython and Data in C), as it turned out, I discussed two fundamental points in each language:
What...
0 replies - 1425 views - 03/13/13 by Amit Saha in Articles
