
Tornado is a popular asynchronous Python web server, and MongoDB a
widely used non-relational database. Alas, to connect to MongoDB from a...
0 replies - 4093 views - 07/08/12 by A. Jesse Jiryu Davis in Articles

There are a lot of different ways to write MapReduce jobs!!!
Sample code for this post https://github.com/joestein/amaunet
I find streaming scripts a good...
1 replies - 4026 views - 07/06/12 by Joe Stein in Articles

This post hails from the year 2010 - interesting to see how Heroku adoption has evolved since then. With the success of Heroku,
both in terms of...
0 replies - 5039 views - 06/14/12 by Gareth Rushgrove in Articles

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dotCloud's goal is to provide a bunch of different independent
services that you can use as building blocks to build your application.
If you need a...
0 replies - 5654 views - 03/28/12 by Ken Cochrane in Articles

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1 replies - 2999 views - 02/23/12 by Snippets Manager in Uncategorized

Using open as a context manager is a great way to ensure your file handles are closed properly and is becoming common:with open('/some/path', 'w') as f:
...
0 replies - 2987 views - 01/15/12 by Michael Foord in Articles

I got the chance to read the book NumPy 1.5 Beginner's Guide written by Ivan Idris and published by Packt Publishing
last month. My impression of the book...
0 replies - 3184 views - 01/14/12 by Giuseppe Vettigli in Articles

While the use of Python on Android has been made possible for some time now through SL4A, the Python for Android project has set out to make things even...
0 replies - 6347 views - 01/10/12 by Chris Smith in Articles

A fixed point for a function is a point at which the value of the
function does not change when the function is applied. More formally, x is a fixed point...
0 replies - 4906 views - 01/09/12 by Giuseppe Vettigli in Articles

Packt Publishing offered to organize a contest with prize – 2 print copies and 2 ebooks of the book NumPy Beginner’s Guide.
How to Win NumPy...
0 replies - 3627 views - 01/05/12 by Idis Sa in Announcements

MongoDB, as some of you may know, has a process-wide write lock. This
has caused some degree of ridicule from database purists when they
discover such a...
2 replies - 7877 views - 01/04/12 by Rick Copeland in Articles

One of my favorite subjects is comparing and contrasting tools and
frameworks available today. Python and Ruby are probably the big 2
languages right...
4 replies - 13639 views - 12/16/11 by Jeff Dickey in Articles

The folks at CERN wanted a better way to search High Energy Physics fulltext paper repositories and bibliographical databases that produce result set numbers...
0 replies - 4403 views - 11/26/11 by David Pell in Articles