Python Singletons
In my opinion, good python libraries and frameworks should spend effort guiding you towards the ‘pit of success’, rather than trying to...
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Archive for November, 2012
Taking your dog to Iceland
In late 2011, my wife and I imported our Boston Terrier, Shoni, to Iceland. Since importing pets commonly comes up on foreigner discussions, I...
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Is QA a good stepping stone?
I’ve always heard that it was difficult to move from QA into development (game design/programming/art/production). I thought this was smart- QA...
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Teaching python decorators
A few weeks ago, I held a demo about context managers and decorators. Teaching context managers was straightforward, as expected. Decorators,...
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PSA: It isn’t dark magic, it’s your anti-virus software
We’ve all had it- sometimes, under certain conditions, your code errors with an IOError because Windows can’t delete a file. It seems...
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