Announcement of upcoming talks on Hades, a Java persistence library, at various developer conferences and user groups.
Explores the conceptual role of metadata in Java EE development, comparing annotations vs. XML and discussing separation of concerns.
Explores how Python's design, inspired by economic incentives, enforces best practices like readability and secure coding to benefit developers long-term.
Zend Framework 1.7 now includes native OpenXML indexing support for Lucene, simplifying document search integration.
A guide on setting up and running the Django test suite for development and patch testing.
A developer highlights key upcoming features in Django 1.1, including ORM aggregation, model validation, and class-based generic views.
Details the upcoming release of Microsoft Office 2007 Service Pack 2, including new features and improvements for clients and servers.
A collection of useful Python tips and tricks, including chained comparisons, dictionary instantiation, and the turtle graphics module.
A discussion on the risks and benefits of using Django's undocumented internal APIs, with advice on managing compatibility.
A technical deep dive into Django's internal model system, explaining the add_to_class and contribute_to_class methods.
A developer shares his essential open-source software stack for daily work on Ubuntu, including Python, Django, and various productivity tools.
Fixing Lightning calendar and Thunderbird integration issues after an Ubuntu Intrepid clean install by installing libstdc++5.
Guide to integrating NUnit unit test results into Team Foundation Server 2008's Team Build for reporting and metrics.
Part 3 of a PLY tutorial covering arithmetic operations, operator precedence, and adding variables to a custom language.
A technical deep dive into how Django models work internally, focusing on the ModelBase metaclass and the class creation process.
A tutorial on building a grammar and interpreter using the PLY parsing library for Python, focusing on creating a calculator.
A tutorial on using the PLY (Python Lex-Yacc) library to tokenize source code, covering token definition and lexer creation.
A critique of the PHP programming language used on Obama's change.gov site, advocating for modern frameworks like Django or Rails.
A developer shares their journey building a compiled programming language using Python and the PLY library, discussing design goals and challenges.
