No Tech Lead
Argues against the traditional 'tech lead' role in software teams, advocating for a collaborative, flat team structure to boost productivity and learning.
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.
A developer's journey from basic electronics to building a processor, exploring how hardware and software combine to create programs.
Argues WordPress must adopt RESTful principles to separate content from presentation, enabling programmatic access for modern web needs.
A blogger details their switch from ModX back to WordPress for better blogging capabilities and hints at future website changes.
A tech professional shares his experience using Windows 8 as his primary OS, arguing the transition for desktop users is manageable and less drastic than critics claim.
Explores why open source is a philosophy of community and collaboration, not just publishing code.
A developer shares their journey of creating ELang, a simple interpreted programming language from scratch using Java, covering lexing, parsing, and execution.
Troubleshooting OBIEE authentication failure with Active Directory due to incorrect Base User DN configuration.