Anwesha Das: Developers, it's License but it's easy
I recently conducted a session on “Software Licensing: The Basic Concepts.” Just after I mentioned the term, “license”, questions flooded in.One of those was quite interesting, “How do we create a...
View Articlecodeboje: Review: Python Hunting Book
I recently stumbled up on a book about game programming with PyGame for beginners. Even I am not the target audience it did catch my attention and my desire to play a bit again with game development...
View ArticleSandipan Dey: Some Analysis with Astronomy data (in python)
Data-Driven Astronomy The following problems appeared as assignments in the coursera course Data-Driven Astronomy. The description of the problems are taken mostly from the course assignments and from...
View ArticleWeekly Python StackOverflow Report: (lxxxiv) stackoverflow python report
These are the ten most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.Between brackets: [question score / answers count]Build date: 2017-07-29 08:00:30 GMTWhy is repr(int) faster than str(int)? -...
View ArticleSandipan Dey: Some Analysis with Astronomy data (in Python)
Data-Driven Astronomy The following problems appeared as assignments in the coursera course Data-Driven Astronomy. The description of the problems are taken mostly from the course assignments and from...
View ArticleAnarcat: My free software activities, July 2017
Debian Long Term Support (LTS)This is my monthly working on Debian LTS. This time I worked on various hairy issues surrounding ca-certificates, unattended-upgrades, apache2 regressions, libmtp, tcpdump...
View ArticleCodementor: Autogenerating blog posts from your project's commit history with...
autogenerate your markdown from git history
View ArticleImport Python: Import Python 135
Worthy Read Refactoring with tests in Python: a practical example This post contains a step-by-step example of a refactoring session guided by tests. When dealing with untested or legacy code...
View ArticlePhilippe Normand: The GNOME-Shell Gajim extension maintenance
Back in January 2011 I wrote a GNOME-Shell extension allowing Gajim users to carry on with their chats using the Empathy infrastructure and UI present in the Shell. For some time the extension was also...
View ArticleJaime Buelta: A Django project template for a RESTful Application using Docker
I used what I learn and some decisions to create a template for new projects. Part of software development is mainly plumbing. Laying bricks together and connecting parts so the important bits of...
View ArticleFull Stack Python: Responsive Bar Charts with Bokeh, Flask and Python 3
Bokeh is a powerful open source Python library that allows developers to generate JavaScript data visualizations for their web applications without writing any JavaScript. While learning a...
View ArticleFull Stack Python: Creating Bar Chart Visuals with Bokeh, Bottle and Python 3
The Bokeh open source Python visualization library assists developers with creating web browser visuals. You can build charts for web applications without coding any JavaScript, like you'd need to do...
View ArticleCalvin Spealman: I Learned 4 Things From my First Ludum Dare
I've done my first Ludum Dare Jam now, and actually my first game jam of any kind. Wow! I am so happy to have finally done this. It was a super rewarding experience and I want to share that, and my...
View Articletryexceptpass: Controlling Python Async Creep
Photo Credit: Christian Jourdy via UnsplashPython added formal asynchronicity in the base language a while ago. It’s fun to play with asyncio tasks and coroutines, the basic constructs that execute...
View ArticleReuven Lerner: Where can you practice (and improve) your Python skills?
The most common question I get from students in my Python classes is: How can we practice and improve our skills after the course is over?These students realize that no matter how good a course might...
View ArticleTalk Python to Me: #123 Lessons from 100 straight dev job interviews
What if you could take the experience and insight from 100 job interviews and use them to find just the right job. You'd be able to weed out the bad places that are not the right fit. You'd see that...
View ArticleChris Moffitt: Pandas Grouper and Agg Functions Explained
IntroductionEvery once in a while it is useful to take a step back and look at pandas’ functions and see if there is a new or better way to do things. I was recently working on a problem and noticed...
View ArticleDoug Hellmann: sqlite3 — Embedded Relational Database — PyMOTW 3
The sqlite3 module provides a DB-API 2.0 compliant interface to SQLite, an in-process relational database. SQLite is designed to be embedded in applications, instead of using a separate database server...
View ArticleWeekly Python Chat: PyCon Australia
Want to ask a question of PyCon Australia attendees? Curious what the conferences is like and what we've been doing there?I'll be holding a live chat with the friendly folks I meet at PyCon Australia.
View ArticleContinuum Analytics News: What’s New with Anaconda in 2017?
Company BlogMonday, July 31, 2017Scott CollisonChief Executive OfficerIt’s hard to believe that we’re halfway through 2017. I joined Anaconda as CEO back in January and I’ve been deeply impressed by...
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