Looked interesting enough for someone to email it to me. Still can't figure out why they sent it. Posting this feels like advertising, so perhaps I should charge them a promotional fee.
"A minimum of 2 years of Web Service development, preferably using an established Python-based …
Sigh. What a difficult question. There are numerous incarnations on StackOverflow. All nearly unanswerable. The worst part is questions where they add the "in general" qualifier. Which is "faster in general" is essentially impossible to answer. And yet, the question persists.
There are three rules for figuring out which is …
more ...I'm looking for a unbiased Python expert to help with a book I'm working on. We need "an unbiased python expert with a keen eye for detail."
The role is technical reviewer. I've never done this before, but it appears that the tech reviewer is a paid position somewhere in …
more ...Many folks use Python's unittest module for integration testing. It sometimes leads to whining and hand-wringing, but it is very effective. Ordinary "unit" tests use mocks and focus on a class or a module more-or-less in isolation. The purists say "complete isolation". But that's sometimes unrealistic. A class that's part …
more ...I've (finally) updated the pyWeb Literate Programming Tool.
There were feature requests and bug reports. Much to do. Sadly, I'm really slow at doing it.
Check out this item on eWeek: Java, C, C++: Top Programming Languages for 2011 - Application Development - News & Reviews - eWeek.com.
The presentation starts with Java, C, C++, C# -- not surprising. These are clearly the most popular programming languages. These seem to be the first choice made by many organizations.
In …
more ...Check this out: http://www.antiifcampaign.com/.
I'm totally in favor of reducing complexity. I've seen too many places where a Strategy or some other kind of Delegation design pattern should have been used. Instead a cluster of if-statements was used. Sometimes these if-statements suffer copy-and-paste repetition because someone didn't …
more ...Check this out: "Stupid Template Languages".
Love this:
"The biggest annoyance I have with smart template languages (Mako, Genshi, Jinja2, PHP, Perl, ColdFusion, etc) is that you have the capability to mix core business logic with your end views, hence violating the rules of Model-View-Controller architecture."
Yes, too much power …
more ...Imagine that we've got a collection of applications used by customers to provide data, a collection of applications we use to collect data from vendors. We've got a third collection of analytical tools.
Currently, they share a common database, but the focus, use cases, and interfaces are different.
Okay so …
more ...First, read EWD800.
It has harsh things to say about relying on intuition in programming.
Stack Overflow is full of questions where someone takes their experience with one language and applies it incorrectly and inappropriately to another language.
I get email, periodically, also on this subject. I got one recently …
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