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30 Python Language Features and Tricks You May Not Know About

Posted on March 8, 2014. Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: , |

30 Python Language Features and Tricks You May Not Know About Since I started learning Python, I decided to maintain an often visited list of “tricks”. Any time I saw a piece of code that made me think “Cool! I didn’t know you could do that!” I experimented with it until I understood it and […]

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Python Best Practice Patterns

Posted on February 28, 2014. Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: , , , |

Notes from Vladimir Keleshev’s talk Python Best Practice Patterns [English, 38 minutes], given on May 2, 2013 at the Python Meetup in Denmark.

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More sensible defaults for Blender

Posted on February 27, 2014. Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: , |

Due to the fact I still see a fair bit of traffic to my 2012 article on default configurations for Blender, I’ve rewritten it to incorporate some new things, as well as some additional recommendations from others. Blender Defaults 2014 edition covers some suggestions for how to configure both your user preferences and the default […]

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Resizing a VirtualBox disk

Posted on February 23, 2014. Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: , , , |

Resize a VirtualBox guest Linux VDI Disk under Windows Host It is April, 2013, I am using VirtualBox 4.2.6. The host OS (the one that is running VirtualBox) is Windows 7 and the guest OS that I wish to re-size is Ubuntu. Please backup everything before continuing as something could always go wrong. Anyway, here […]

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50 resources for beginner to intermediate Python programmers

Posted on January 20, 2014. Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: , , , , , , |

Here’s a categorized list of 50 Python resources I’ve found to be very helpful while teaching myself the language over the last 8 months or so. Thought you all might find them helpful too.

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Problem Solving with Algorithms and Data Structures

Posted on January 7, 2014. Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: , , , , , , , , , |

Problem Solving with Algorithms and Data Structures is a book and an interactive website that uses python to solve fun-looking problems. Contents: Algorithm Analysis Basic Data Structures: Stacks, Queues, Deques, Lists Recursion Sorting and Searching: Bubble, Selection, Insertion, Shell, Merge and Quick sorts Trees and Tree Agorithms: Binary Tree, Priority Queues, Binary Heaps, Binary Search […]

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How to use the debugger with Moose

Posted on October 25, 2013. Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: , , , |

How to use the debugger with Moose By Ovid 2013-10-25 I use the Perl debugger quite a bit. I also write a lot of Moose code and that’s when I invariably hit code you get when you use Moose and it makes debugging much harder than it needs to be.

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A list of Free Programming Books

Posted on October 11, 2013. Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: , , |

Free Programming Books

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A List of Programming Screencast Series

Posted on August 14, 2013. Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: , , |

Since I publish a screencast series, I’m curious what other programming screencasts people watch. So I asked around. Here’s the list, based on feedback as well as my own bookmarks. Read more…

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Android is better

Posted on August 12, 2013. Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: , , , |

How I fell in love with Android and how you can too It was just meant to be a quick experiment. I started using a Nexus 4. I was going to go right back to my iPhone after a week. I was designing more and more Android interfaces at Twitter and realized I needed to […]

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