A developer shares their journey revisiting classic algorithms, providing Python implementations of insertion sort and merge sort from the MIT Intro to Algorithms course.
Author's talk proposal for a panel on ORM design philosophies at PyCon 2009 has been accepted, featuring notable Python developers.
A developer reflects on a month of daily blogging, sharing traffic stats and popular posts about Python, Django, and web development.
A developer explains the shortcomings of Python's easy_install tool and proposes using native system package managers instead.
A tutorial on implementing and configuring the Django sitemap framework to generate XML sitemaps for a website.
Explores how Python's design, inspired by economic incentives, enforces best practices like readability and secure coding to benefit developers long-term.
A guide on setting up and running the Django test suite for development and patch testing.
A collection of useful Python tips and tricks, including chained comparisons, dictionary instantiation, and the turtle graphics module.
A developer shares his essential open-source software stack for daily work on Ubuntu, including Python, Django, and various productivity tools.
A technical deep dive into how Django models work internally, focusing on the ModelBase metaclass and the class creation process.
A tutorial on using the PLY (Python Lex-Yacc) library to tokenize source code, covering token definition and lexer creation.
A critique of the PHP programming language used on Obama's change.gov site, advocating for modern frameworks like Django or Rails.
A developer shares their journey building a compiled programming language using Python and the PLY library, discussing design goals and challenges.
A technical guide on using Python's multiprocessing library with PyGTK to offload intensive calculations from the main GUI thread.
A technical guide on creating a generic LazyForeignKey field in Django to simplify foreign key relationships and add custom manager functionality.
A developer shares their experience using the feedparser library with Django to parse RSS/Atom feeds and handle date/timezone conversion challenges.
A developer recounts attending a Python Onsen event, working on a Django lifestream app, and discussing web development with peers.
Announcing the first release of a JSON Schema validator for Python, based on the JSON Schema Proposal Second Draft.
A developer shares their experience at a Python-focused onsen retreat, detailing collaborative work on a JSON schema validator for a Google App Engine project.
Explains how symlinks affect directory navigation in Unix shells vs. programming languages like Python, highlighting the 'cd -P' option.
