Build an In-Memory Proximity Search Web Service with Python, SciPy and Heroku
In this post I’m going to look at a concrete example of building an in-memory...
Blog - page 6
I'm an expert Python software developer and author on a mission to help every developer build a meaningful career.
Revisiting Umberto Eco's Future of the Book
In 2003 Umberto Eco gave a talk at the opening of the Bibliotheca Alexandrina...
Using IPython Notebook with Django
IPython has a relatively new featured called the “Notebook,” which improves o...
Set an ImageField path in Django manually
Apparently this is a confusing topic. Let’s say you have a Django model with ...
Go: How to Get the Directory of the Current File
In Python I often use the __file__ constant to get the directory of the curre...
Run Django Unit Tests in a Sublime Text 2 Build System
With the dev builds of Sublime Text 2, you can easily set up a build system t...
Python: How to tell what class a decorated method is in at runtime
When profiling a Python app, it’s helpful to have a decorator that wraps func...
Make Sublime Text 2 More like Vim: Wrap Code, Go To Last Edit, Jump Back, and More
I’ve been trying out Sublime Text 2 as a replacement for Vim. While I enjoy u...
Sharp Edges: Protecting Ourselves from Digital Publishing
Nicholas Carr wrote in a recent article that he considered the ability of pub...