Analyzes the performance overhead of enabling integer overflow checks in compiled code, estimating a small penalty for most applications.
An introduction to Yeoman, a toolchain for streamlining web development workflows using generators for project scaffolding.
The article argues against the idea that market forces prevent discrimination, using historical examples from finance to challenge this common tech industry belief.
Analyzing Linux commit messages using TF-IDF to identify what individual developers work on, beyond common stop words.
The author argues that using intrinsics for high-performance code is unreliable and more work than writing assembly by hand.
Court denies preliminary approval of a $324.5M class action settlement in a high-tech employee wage-fixing antitrust lawsuit.
A 1997 design contest analysis where Verilog users outperformed VHDL users, sparking industry debate and controversy.
The author announces they will be giving their first conference talk on Webscraping in Python at EuroPython 2014.
A guide on using Heroku's PHP buildpack locally to create a development environment that mirrors a Laravel app's Nginx setup on Heroku.
A tutorial on configuring a Laravel application to use a PostgreSQL database when deploying on the Heroku platform.
Article critiques a misleading report claiming no gender pay gap in tech, using evidence from the AAUW study to refute the claim.
Explains how data alignment affects CPU cache performance, using benchmarks and an analogy to illustrate the impact on speed.
A technical guide on using Python and tools like rtmpdump to reverse engineer and download songs from Myspace.
Explains how to use grunt-contrib-connect to run a local server with PHP support and livereload for front-end development.
An introduction to Python's unittest framework, covering basic setup, writing tests, and using assert methods.
A summary of recent blog posts and presentations by Guido van Rossum, the creator of Python, covering topics like 0-based indexing and Python 3.
A brief post highlighting two new Python programming books: one on Tkinter GUI development and another on Test-Driven Development for web apps.
A roundup of interesting Python projects, including Lans.py, CherryMusic, Python Wheels, Dataset, and Openpyxl.
Announcement of the PyDev 3.0 release, a Python IDE plugin for Eclipse, detailing its new features and capabilities.
A developer's personal recap of attending the Topconf Tallinn 2013 software conference, covering talks, panels, and networking.
