Chris Hager: Retrofit 2.0 Samples
This post is about using Retrofit to consume HTTP based APIs.Retrofit is a great and popular API client library for Java (and by extension also for Android) developed by Square. Here’s a few links to...
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A. Jesse Jiryu Davis: Testing PyMongo As A Black Pipe
This is the second article in my six-part series on "black pipe" testing. PyMongo, the official Python client for MongoDB, is a great example of a connected application that can't be fully tested as a...
View ArticleCalvin Spealman: Giving it a REST
I don’t remember deciding that I was a fan of REST APIs, but I found myself in that position for a lot of years. I was really only getting to the point as a developer that I was even thinking about...
View ArticleS. Lott: Python Week at Packt Publishing
Go to https://www.packtpub.com.Look for the deal of the week.Get 20% off Python titles.You're welcome.
View ArticleMike Driscoll: PyDev of the Week: Carol Willing
This week we welcome Carol Willing (@WillingCarol) as our PyDev of the Week. Let’s spend some time learning more about our fellow Pythonista! Can you tell us a little about yourself (hobbies,...
View ArticleDavid MacIver: New improved development experience for Hypothesis
As part of my drive to make Hypothesis more of a community project, one of the things I need to do is to ensure it’s easy for new people to pick up, and easy for people who have a different environment...
View ArticleCalvin Spealman: The Practice of "Vanilla JS"
I try to keep my skills up and its hard to do when the thing you try to have skills in is always changing. The web landscape is always in flux, at a seemingly ever-increasing pace. Javascript...
View ArticleEnd Point: Getting realtime output using Python Subprocess
The Problem When I launch a long running unix process within a python script, it waits until the process is finished, and only then do I get the complete output of my program. This is annoying if I'm...
View ArticleeGenix.com: Python Meeting Düsseldorf - 2015-10-21
The following text is in German, since we're announcing a regional user group meeting in Düsseldorf, Germany.AnkündigungDas nächste Python Meeting Düsseldorf findet an folgendem Termin statt:Mittwoch,...
View ArticleTalk Python to Me: #29 Python at the Large Hadron Collider and CERN
The largest machine ever built is the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. It's primary goal was the discovery of the Higgs Boson: the fundamental particle which gives all objects mass. The LHC team of...
View ArticleS. Lott: Wait, there's more Python goodness from Packt
This just in...Here's a link to the actual Python Week page, with all the deals there for the week: https://www.packtpub.com/packt/offers/pythonweekThey also have a week of free Python books too, which...
View ArticleDaily Tech Video (Python): [Video 323] Thomas French and Fred Farrell:...
Agent-based modeling is a powerful tool for understanding complex behavior — deriving rules that describe various phenomena, as well as for predicting behavior. It has a wide variety of uses in...
View ArticleNed Batchelder: Coverage.py 4.0.1
I fixed a few bugs in coverage.py 4.0 to produce coverage.py 4.0.1. Try it. :)
View ArticleS. Lott: Chapters to Edit: What do I do instead?
I'm starting to get chapters back from the technical reviewers. This is an important part of the writing process: correcting my mistakes and clarifying things that confused the reviewers.Packt has had...
View ArticleAndre Roberge: from __experimental__ import something_new
Python programmers are used to the notation:from __future__ import new_functionalitywhich allows to experiment with changes that are to become part of a future Python version. These are hard-coded in...
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PyCharm: Introducing Paul Everitt, PyCharm Developer Advocate
Please welcome our new PyCharm Developer Advocate, Paul Everitt! He brings a ton of experience from the Python and web worlds so we couldn’t miss the chance to interview him. Get to know Paul in this...
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Ruslan Spivak: Let’s Build A Simple Interpreter. Part 5.
How do you tackle something as complex as understanding how to create an interpreter or compiler? In the beginning it all looks pretty much like a tangled mess of yarn that you need to untangle to get...
View ArticlePython Does What?!: Look before you leap
There are countless reasons to do unsafe memory access. Here's some help:import ctypesimport osif hasattr(ctypes.cdll, "msvcrt"): #windows branch _BUF = ctypes.create_string_buffer('a') def...
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Caktus Consulting Group: ShipIt Day ReCap: Q4 2015
Members of one team joined forces with local meetup Code for Durham to help with the alpha launch of the School Navigator App. Using publicly available data, the School Navigator, allows users to...
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Ian Ozsvald: Opening Plenary at BudapestBI Forum 2015
I’ve just given my final talk for the year – I’m “at my other home” in Budapest (I’m half-Hungarian) and have had the honour of opening Bence and team’s BudapestBI Forum 2015. This conference has both...
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