Programming and politics

Below are the sldies. Major thanks to Charlie Nutter for great feedback and advice on the Ruby code and tuning JRuby performance. Thanks to ...

See this post about why this code is being shown. See this post for the Java version to compare against. class PyReversible(object): _...

See this post about why this code is being shown. See this post for the Java version to compare against. class PyWordSort(object): def...

See this post for an explanation on why this code is being shown and what kind of responses would be useful. See this post for the Java al...

In case you missed it, Python's BDFL a.k.a. Guido van Rossum filed some major complaints about Scala . After you read that, read a good...

All of my recent excursions into Python convinced me it was time to try out Jython. I have had a great experiences with JRuby. It is definit...

I finished Core Python. My last post on it hits on a few random things towards the end of the book. The most interesting is threading in Py...

The title makes me want to go to Vegas ... No gambling, just a discussion on slotted classes in Python and in particular how to pickle and ...

Today I finished the part three of a series of articles on the Google App Engine. Of course right now, GAE only supports Python. So I've...

Inspired by Python, here are a few tastes.

My latest Core Python inspired post is about using repr() and pickle in Python. Oh and a few bits about JSON as well.

I mentioned some new books that I am reading. The publisher of those books gave me the opportunity to blog about them while I read them. I t...

Wife: "you got a real heavy book in today by fedex." Me : "I need to leave work early" Yep, new books arrived today. Her...

First off, if you like programming, you should check out this hilarious site on the venerable song 99 Bottles of Beer . Ok, now I am assumin...

I decided to go ahead and do Python versions of the programming assignments. I updated the ATM and Text Manipulation assignments to includ...

I've been tutoring a friend learning Java. Each week they have a different assignment designed to help them learn a particular concept. ...