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2015
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Reasons to love SQLAlchemy

I've seen some bashing of ORMs of late, which I think is totally undeserved. I'm a big fan of SQLAlchemy ; I use it in most of my projects, and have contributed code to the library. I'm going to explain 10 good reasons you should love SQLAlchemy too! In fairness, there are a number of good ORMs around, and most of…

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Object-oriented techniques in C

Although the techniques described below won't be very popular nowadays (after all, why bother using C if we're going to write object-oriented code?), they are still quite relevant for embedded systems and other low-level things (kernel development, etc). For example, lots of Linux Kernel subsystems use similar…

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A curl cheat sheet

MOAR DOX! Whenever we ask curl users what they lack in our project and what we should improve, the response is always clear: documentation. Here are the most common curl command line options when doing HTTP operations. This is the web page rendered as an image, click it to get to the web version. The … Continue…