Stoimen Popov05/16/12
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Typically multiplying two n-digit numbers require n2 multiplications. That is actually how we, humans, multiply numbers. Let’s take a look of an example in case we’ve to multiply two 2-digit numbers. . .
Corey Goldberg05/16/12
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In my last two blog posts, I showed examples of using Selenium WebDriver to capture screenshots, and running in a headless (no X-server) mode. This example combines the two solutions to capture screenshots inside a virtual display.
William Soprano05/15/12
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In this video tutorial from the 2012 PyData Workshop, John Hunter, author of matplotlib is going to give you some advanced insight into the plotting library.
Giuseppe Vettigli05/14/12
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Check out this useful python snippet for to computing the prime factors of an integer.
William Soprano05/13/12
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This session will cover the challenges of creating a production application performance monitoring system for Python.
William Soprano05/11/12
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In this panel, we speak to a number of the people behind these new platforms to discuss what benefits they offer, what challenges they face, and what the Django project/community can do to encourage their growth.
Steven Lott05/11/12
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For some people, Tools Trump Language. Sadly, I've also had customers with ancient code they could no longer compile or maintain because the tools were out of support.
William Soprano05/10/12
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This video will go over how to handle many common solutions not currently described in the core documentation and give an in-depth look (with demonstration) at the how and why of several advanced security topics.
David Winterbottom05/10/12
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Solving the problem of running pip install -r requirements.txt which will not pick any commits after d636b803 until requirements.txt is updated.
Stoimen Popov05/09/12
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Run-length encoding is a data compression algorithm that helps us encode large runs of repeating items by only sending one item from the run and a counter showing how many times this item is repeated.
Stoimen Popov05/09/12
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Stoimen Popov is back with another episode in his Algorithm of the Week series, and this week he tackles prime numbers. Stoimen begins with a very basic (brute force) approach, and then refines his algorithm to be far more effective, though it still works best for smaller numbers.
William Soprano05/08/12
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This talk will go through the deployment system that we have built at Urban Airship and introducing the concepts of caching/covering the best practives of using Djangos cache backend.
Eli Bendersky05/08/12
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In my opinion, to make the migration easier, it makes sense to write code that can run on both Python 2 and 3, at least for some time.
Steve Ferg05/08/12
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In this post I will show you what the wrong end of the stick looks like, and point out why I think it is wrong. And I will show you what I think the right end of the stick looks like.
William Soprano05/07/12
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Django con keynote speaker gives his two cents on social communities involving developers
Chase Seibert05/03/12
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In this post, Chase Seibert discusses two asset managers for Django that bundle static resources for deployment to a CDN. With both libraries still in development, Chase ran into a couple of issues starting off and he tells us how to avoid these.
Chase Seibert05/07/12
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Do you know how many database queries your Django pages are making? If you're like me, you probably don't know exactly. That's the beauty of the ORM; it abstracts database access to such a level that you rarely have to think about it.
Corey Goldberg05/06/12
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Corey Goldberg gives us some basic instructions for searching Splunk and Python and then walks us through the process of using the tools.
Mike Driscoll05/05/12
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Last month around the time of PyCon USA 2012, Matt Harrison sent me a copy of his newest book, Guide to: Learning Iteration and Generators in Python. I’ve been wanting to learn more about generators anyway, so I thought this was pretty fortuitous. We’ll take a quick look at the good and the bad after the jump.
Corey Goldberg05/05/12
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Check out this really cool video outlining data source which is the commit log from cpython mercurial trunk.
Steven Lott05/03/12
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Steven Lott has been refurbishing an older project, built using Django 1.0.1 and Python 2.5, to make it compatible with Django 1.3. In this post, Steven explains the process he took, and why he loves deleting old code.
Mike Driscoll05/01/12
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How-to: Creating menus and popup menus for use of editing preferences or configuring the program.
Mahdi Yusuf05/01/12
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I have put together a list of applications that use python and are extremely well designed. Python is certainly not ugly.
A. Jesse Jiryu Davis04/30/12
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I rewrote PyMongo’s connection pool and among the concurrency issues I had to nail down were: if a thread is resetting the connection pool as another thread is using the pool, how do I keep them from stepping on each other? I thought the swap would be atomic...
Chris Smith04/30/12
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Shrikant Sharat has put together this amazing tutorial on Python subprocesses in which he covers a simple usage case, the Popen class, IO Streams, Killing and Dieing, and launching commands in a terminal emulator (for both Linux and Windows).
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