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All of the content has been movedAnd reformatted.And lightly edited to clean up a few of the long-standing problems.Moved to https://slott56.github.io/.Nothing new will be posted here.All the new stuff...
View ArticleDZone's lack of a Python Zone
Check out DZone's Coding zone: https://dzone.com/coding. Hover over the "Coding" drop-down menu.Notice anything lacking?I'll give you a hint: Python.They have "Frameworks", "Java", "Javascript",...
View ArticleChristmas Book Offers
Apple BooksPivot to PythonA Guide for professionals and skilled beginnershttps://books.apple.com/us/book/pivot-to-python/id1586977675 I've recently updated this to fix some cosmetic problems with title...
View ArticleOn Algorithm Design
Some background: FAERIE DUST™, Obstinate Idiocy, Obstinate Idiocy, Expanded, and even Permutations, Combinations and Frustrations. I want to set up algorithm design as the diametric opposite of...
View ArticleMy algorithm performs badly, do I need asyncio?
Real Question (somewhat abbreviated): "My algorithm performs badly, do I need asyncio?"Short answer: No.Long answer: Sigh. No. Do you need a slap upside the head?Here's how it plays out:Q: "We figured...
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Functional Programming and Finite State Automata (FSA)
When I talk about functional programming in Python, folks like to look for place where functional programming isn't appropriate. They latch onto finite-state automata (FSA) because "state" of an...
View ArticleTesting with PySpark
This isn't about details of pySpark. This is about the philosophy of testing when working with a large, complex framework, like pySpark, pandas, numpy, or whatever. BLUFUse data subsets. Write unit...
View ArticleGenerators as Stacks of Operations
See https://towardsdatascience.com/building-generator-pipelines-in-python-8931535792ff I'm delighted by this article. I was shown only the first, horrible, example. I think the idea was to push back on...
View ArticleFighting Against Over-Engineering
I've been trying to help some folks who have a "search" algorithm that's slow. They know it's slow -- that's pretty obvious.They're -- unfortunately -- sure that asyncio will help. That's not an...
View ArticleSome Functional Programming in Python material
This is bonus content for the forthcoming Functional Python Programming 3rd edition book. It didn't make it into the book because -- well -- it was just too much of the wrong kind of detail.See this...
View ArticleBooks! Books! More Channels!
I started with the Apple Books platform because it's an easy default for me. Pivot to PythonA Guide for professionals and skilled beginnershttps://books.apple.com/us/book/pivot-to-python/id1586977675...
View ArticleEnterprise Python -- Some initial thoughts
In the long run, I think there's a small book here. See 8 reasons Python will rule the enterprise — and 8 reasons it won’t | InfoWorld. The conclusion, "Teams need to migrate slowly into the future,...
View ArticleTragedy Averted
I almost made a terrible blunder.See https://github.com/slott56/py-web-tool for some background. This is a "Literate Programming" tool. I started fooling around with this kind of thing back in '05...
View ArticleBooks! Books! Books!
First, there's Pivot to PythonA Guide for professionals and skilled beginnershttps://books.apple.com/us/book/pivot-to-python/id1586977675 I've recently updated this to fix some cosmetic problems with...
View ArticleBashing the Bash -- The shell is awful and what you can do about it
A presentation I did recently.https://github.com/slott56/bashing-the-bashFolks were polite and didn't have too many questions. I guess they fundamentally agreed: the shell is awful, we can use it for a...
View ArticleI've got a great Proof-of-Concept. How do I go forward with it?
This is the best part about Python -- you can build something quickly. And it really works.But. What are the next steps?While there are a *lot* of possibilities, I'm focused on an "enterprise work...
View ArticleThe Enterprise COBOL Conundrum
Enterprise COBOL is both a liability and an asset. There's tangible value hidden in the code.See https://github.com/slott56/looking-at-cobol I've tweaked the presentation a little. The essential...
View ArticleRevised Understanding --> Revised Data Structures --> Revised Type Hints
My literate programming tool, pyWeb, has moved to version 3.1 -- supporting modern Python.Next up, version 3.2. This is a massive reworking of the data structures involved. The rework lets me use...
View ArticleMassive Rework of Data Structures
As noted in My Shifting Understanding and A Terrible Design Mistake, I had a design that focused on serialization instead of proper modeling of the objects in question.Specifically, I didn't start with...
View ArticleMy Shifting Understanding and A Terrible Design Mistake
I've been fascinated by Literate Programming forever. I have two utterly divergent takes on this.See https://github.com/slott56/PyLit-3 for one.See https://github.com/slott56/py-web-tool for...
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