While I normally agree with nearly every one of Jeff Atwood’s posts, I find this post, Please Don’t Learn to Code, at best utterly baffling, and at worst, deeply troubling. He makes several points and the post is, as usual, … Continue reading
Most of the time, when you start coding against an API, either with or without an API client, you end up producing enough errors that your error-checking is fairly robust. However, sometimes most or even everything “just works.” Which produces … Continue reading
This is the easiest-to-follow of the various Python logging guides/posts/docs that I’ve seen: Python logging tutorial | Pingbacks.
I’m not sure how I missed this post by Jacob Kaplan-Moss, where he’s throwing the kind of REST question out there that has, in the past kept me thinking for hours: It seems like URIs like /people/{my-uid}/photos and /people/{my-uid}/photos/{photo-id} are more “pure.” … Continue reading
Or someone working for him was. I was having dinner last night with my cousin (an SAP consultant) and we covered a range of topics, including lobbying and programming languages. And it struck us that laws are essentially programs. Either … Continue reading
I think the two huge things that technology is changing in online advertising are 1) targeting. And 2) what I am starting to think of as “applitisements”, which is to say: display and mobile ads are going to become more … Continue reading
As many Python folks have discovered, upgrading to Snow Leopard can cause some pain for development. For the most part, this involves reinstalling a bunch of things (macports, python itself and whatever python packages you use). This has been a … Continue reading
I’m sold on trying out Scala, after seeing James Strachan state: I’m very impressed with it! I can honestly say if someone had shown me the Programming Scala book by by Martin Odersky, Lex Spoon & Bill Venners back in … Continue reading
So I’ve been fiddling quite a bit with neo4j for an idea I had. I can say I definitely like how fast and intuitive it is to use. I’m a bit worried about storage. I created 1000 nodes with 100 … Continue reading
Qi4j is a new framework I’ve been looking at. As my friend Nick put it, “it’s mixins for Java!” which is, well, true; but here’s the description from the site: Qi4j is a framework for domain centric application development, including … Continue reading