Why rewrite a shell script in Python?

Here's the actual quote:

Why would you need to rewrite a working script in python ? Was there any business direction towards this ?

This was an unexpected response. And unwelcome. I guess I called their baby ugly.

The short answer is that the shell script language is perhaps one of the …

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The Lynda.com Experience

One word: "wow" More words: "Helping shy people get up and do what needs to be done." Yes, that's Garrison Keillor's tag line for one of the "sponsors" of "A Prairie Home Companion": the Powdermilk Biscuits company. (Heavens. they're tasty and expeditious.) The folks at Lynda are truly great at …

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A NoSQL Conversation

This cropped up recently. It's part of a "replace Mongo with Relational DB" conversation.

I'm going to elide the conversation down to five key points. The three post-hoc nonsensical ideas, and the two real points.

What's (to me) very telling is that someone else published the five reasons in this …

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The GUI Problem

I write Microservices. And not-so-micro Services. API's.

I got this email recently.

"Goal: get you to consider adding Gooey to your Python tool set" "Gooey What it's for: Turn a console-based Python program into one that sports a platform-native GUI. Why it's great: Presenting people, especially rank-and-file users, with a …
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PacktPub Looking For Python Projects

Do you have a good project? Do you want to write? The acquisition folks at Packt are looking for this: "... demonstrate 4-5 projects over the course of the chapters in order to demonstrate how to build scalable Python projects from scratch. These projects cover some of the most important concepts …

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SQL Hegemony and Document Databases

A surpassingly strange question is this: "How do I get the data out of MongoDB into a spreadsheet?"
The variation is "How can we load the MongoDB data into a relational database?"
I'm always perplexed by this question. It has a subtext that I find baffling. The subtext is this …
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