A former government developer and attorney analyzes outdated federal IT workflows and advocates for adopting modern, open-source practices and updating laws.
Explains the role of a Government Evangelist at GitHub, focusing on helping government agencies adopt open source software and practices.
A developer's deep dive into debugging an unexpected UIMenuController behavior in iOS, revealing intricacies of the responder chain and canPerformAction.
Explains the new Unicode 'u' flag in ES2015 JavaScript regex, covering syntax, dot operator, quantifiers, and character class behavior.
A developer's wishlist for upcoming features in PostgreSQL 9.5, including upsert, foreign data wrapper improvements, and better replication.
Highlights of the scikit-learn 0.15 release, including performance improvements, new features, and deprecations.
A developer announces plans to drop Windows Phone 7 support from a toolkit and invites community feedback via a poll.
Argues against the traditional 'tech lead' role in software teams, advocating for a collaborative, flat team structure to boost productivity and learning.
A guide explaining common errors and best practices when using Python's open() function for file handling.
An introduction to Python's unittest framework, covering basic setup, writing tests, and using assert methods.
A critique of a proposal to lower the p-value threshold for statistical significance from 0.05 to 0.005, arguing it addresses symptoms, not root causes.
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.
Analyzes a TV clip to explain how open source contributions work, focusing on small fixes and effective contributor practices.
Version 3.1.0 of the Cimbalino Windows Phone Toolkit is released, adding new services and features for developers.
Explores the equivalence between causal graphs and counterfactual reasoning in statistics, simplifying the connection between two major causal inference frameworks.
Explains why PyPy's JIT compiler makes test suites slower than production code, and why tests are poor benchmarks for performance.
Rittman Mead opens its GitHub repository of reusable OBIEE and ODI scripts, encouraging community contributions and collaboration.
A performance comparison revisiting Numba vs. Cython for optimizing a pairwise distance array computation, using updated libraries and benchmarks.
A deep dive into writing extremely concise Python code, using the creation of a Sudoku solver as an example to explore code golf techniques.
Guide to removing unnecessary XML documentation files from Windows Phone 8 and Windows Store app packages to reduce XAP/APPX file size.
