To boldly go where Node man has gone before
With all the chatter about how uber-amazing Node.js is I figured I'd do a little comparison with my favorite language du jour: Go . Node'...
World `countries` – database table for MySQL
So today, I was buzzing around and searching for a `countries` table script that I could use in MySQL database. As you can imagine, it wouldn’t make any sense to add all world countries into …
I fixed a bug in Python
About a month ago, I found a bad-behavior bug in the tokenize standard library module, and with help from Aron Griffis, submitted a patch to fix it. Yesterday was a Python bug day, and Ezio Melotti merged my change, so I have officially contributed to CPython!
Write hybrid CPU/GPU programs in Haskell
What’s better than programming a GPU with a high-level, Haskell-embedded DSL (domain-specific-language)? Well, perhaps writing portab...
Why C++ Is Not "Back"
There are plenty of excellent developers I know today that still use C++ and teach others how to use it and there is nothing at all wrong with that. So what is the problem then? Why is C++ not "back"?
Dangling by a Trivial Feature
It's not about technology for its own sake. It's about being able to implement your ideas.
"Can you solve this problem for me on the whiteboard?"
Jim is a great chef. He's too modest to say that about himself, but he's worked either as head chef or assistant head chef at a number of re...
Line-by-line memory usage of a Python program
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Alfred V2 Sneak Peek: Workflows
Take a sneak peek at some of the new workflows coming to the Alfred v2 Powerpack soon.
Vim Koans
These koans have been independently translated into Chinese (archived) , thanks to Wanzhang Sheng, and into Spanish (archived) , thanks to Daniel Campoverde Carrión.
Writing a CV in LaTeX
Writing my curriculum in LaTeX was a task that has been on my TODO-list for quite a while. I liked the style of my Word-written CV and I believed it would take hours to come up with a reasonable CV in LaTeX. Nevertheless, I recently sat down, began writing, and after not too long, I ... [Read more...]
Time Spent Waiting for an Answer in StackOverflow (by language)
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Bash One-Liners Explained, Part V: Navigating around
This is the fifth part of the Bash One-Liners Explained article series. In this part I'll teach you how to quickly navigate around the command line in bash using emacs-style keyboard shortcuts. That's right, emacs-style keyboard shortcuts. It might surprise you but by default bash uses emacs-style keyboard shortcuts...
Introducing Times (for Python)
A tiny pet library for dealing with datetimes and timezones in Python.
Java Tuning in a nutshell
While delivering a training recently, I got a request to put together a JVM tuning cheat sheet. Given the 50+ parameters available on the ...