5 Python Vids
If you’re starting out on Python then you may find the following videos useful: Basic Python Advanced Python Python Design Patterns Developing a Product in Python Django Introduction
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Rails Alternatives
After the recent turmoil I thought it may be worth pointing out a few alternatives to the Rails framework. So here’s 4 Ruby-based web framework alternatives for starters: Ramaze – Has no known bugs and claims excellent stability. Thems fighting words! Camping – A ‘micro-framework’, this is incredibly lightweight offering limited features but great efficiency [...]
10 Free SVN & Project Hosting Services
UPDATED: As of Jul 10th 2009 Open Source seems to be exploding all over the place at the moment and with online services increasingly jumping on the free offerings its been fantastic for developers wanting to host, manage, flaunt and communicate their projects online. Here’s a rundown of 6 free SVN hosting and project management [...]
Programming Python puts Ruby to Shame
I’ve always been a huge fan of the Pragmatic Programmers books since getting their renowned tome The Pragmatic Programmer. I have to admit it was a stunning book and so too was their “Agile Web Development with Rails”. I also jumped on the band wagon and bought myself the Programming Ruby (a.k.a. ‘Pickaxe’) book and [...]
Programming Language Benchmarks
I’m suprised I’ve never come across this before but you can find a pretty extensive list of programming benchmarks for just about any language you can think of over at the Gentoo Linux site. One graph I’m sure many of you here would like to see is… The lines in the above graph represent various [...]
Practice Makes Perfect
Its always good to hone your programming skills outside of your usual day-to-day job with a selection of different challenges. That’s why I’ve compiled a list of games, quizes and challenge sites for programmers which are useful for any language. 1. Code Kata Created by Dave Thomas of the Pragmatic Programmers this is a regular [...]
Methodologies, Martial Arts and Philosophy
I can’t help but make comparisons between software development, philosophy and martial arts as I’m passionate about all three. However, I’ve tried three times so far to write an in-depth analysis of the similarities and links between various types of each and failed to put it quite right so I thought a short sharp post [...]
The Journey from Python to Ruby Pt. 1
I originally started out using Python almost 12 months ago just before the summer of 2005. It was an incredible breath of fresh air, allowing a greater level of freedom than statically typed languages such as Java and a cleaner syntax than PHP and yet still remaining incredibly easy to learn and use.I practiced on [...]
Artistic Ruby vs. Corporate Python
Just looking at the Ruby-Lang Design blog in which the Ruby Community are submitting, discussing and voting on a new format for their main page. It seems they will be going for a much more artistic approach to the new Python beta homepage. John’s Ruby emblem. You guys were bonkers over this. The gem gives [...]
Thoughts on Rails
After getting the Agile book a couple of weeks ago (?) now I’ve been working on a few Rails projects to get some practice in. My first one and current favourite is actually a port of an existing PHP-based system on race car results that was once used by a client. I thought it would [...]
