For the past year or so I have been working with JSON-LD and Hydra. I have been an internal zealot for using JSON-LD and Hydra for building hypermedia services but I have been met with indifference for "simpler" formats such as HAL.
I think this preference for HAL is due ...
So I have been tasked with optimizing our deployment pipeline. It is pretty obvious to us where the bottlenecks are but trying to be a data driven developer I needed to collect stats on the current system to know for certain where the bottlenecks are in feature deployment.
The only ...
Roughly about a month ago I wondered if Erlang's promise of massive concurrency was actually true.
Rather than take everyone's word for it, inspired by Richard Jones' C1M experiment I decided to whip together a benchmark of my own.
This benchmark pit a Cowboy ...
The Python logging module is often a source of confusion with
developers. Often, logging is the final thought in a project. When we
are finishing up a project, the last thing we want to do is sift
through the logging
documentation to figure
logging out. It is a perpetual cycle ...
There are three books that I believe that every self-taught computer scientist should read. These are books that I often recommend to smart junior developers that learned their knowledge by doing instead of schooling. These are books that will close the gap for people that fall into the category of ...
I have to say before you read this that I only have a theoritical understanding of how a web service benefits for being RESTful. Most of the topics I have explored are actually explained in Roy Fieldings section on REST
In the future, I would like to explore and ...
Hi, I'm announcing a project I have called django-viewtools
django-viewtools provides a management command to help in debugging and profiling views
django-viewtools provides a number of management commands for debugging views.
There are a number of flags that can be used when calling the view
I am sure there has been a number of explanations on Unicode and Python but I'm going to do a little write up for my own sake.
Let's start by defining what a string in Python is. When you use the string type ...
So you have a site in production and someone called you up that there is a bug on the site. Your template designer is trying to make a change to a template and the change is isn't showing up on the site. You make the change on you development ...
I've had to figure this out before and I forgot it. Here it is preserved
def daysuntilnextdow(start, next):
"""Determine how many days until the next Day of week
start: The day of the week to start from
next: The day of the week to go to
returns a ...PostgresSQL implements something called MVCC. Which alleviates the need for a Read-Lock in many cases. However when Glenn Franxman and I were trying to figure out how this works we were having trouble understanding it completely.
If you ask about MVCC in the #postgres irc channel ...
So, you're looking for a job you say... Need to brush up on your knowledge set... I've got the tool for you!
career_chooser.py
import urllib
import re
import sys
import cgi
API_KEY="USE YOUR OWN"
def get_result(query):
url = "http://api.indeed.com/apisearch?q=\"%s\"&l ...In the Django template system. There is a small caveat that you need to recognize when developing your own template tags.
When Django parses the Node tree it creates a template.Node instance for each template tag in the template. The node tree is just like our beloved HTML DOM ...
What can I say about the iphone 3g that hasn't been said. All I can say is I want one and I want to develop on it.
The one thing that sold me was the true GPS support. This thing is going to herald in the geotagging revolution that ...
So Glenn Franxman was opining this afternoon about how twitter is going to reach a point where they're going to grow to big and need to make money somehow. He said that they're either going to have to throw ads everywhere or hope to be aquired.
He thinks ...
So I released my feedclowd code as open source and I needed to pick license. The requirements I wanted in a license were this, you may use the source code but if you modify that source code you must make your source code available. In my ignorance, that's what ...
I've finally made the application that drives www.feedclowd.com to be open source.
Here's the official announcement
I just released my project as a public beta, feedclowd It's a life aggregator were you can take all your feeds from all your social sites and combine them into one simple feed.
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