Python 3.4 will include the pip package manager by default, following the acceptance of PEP 453.
Announcement of PyCharm 3.0 Community Edition, a free, open-source Python IDE with intelligent editing and debugging features.
A beginner's guide to designing and building your first iPhone app, covering tools, planning, and learning resources.
Explains why CSS-only auto-resizing of input fields is impossible due to HTML's definition of inputs as void elements.
A tutorial on creating slanted, 3D-looking tabs using CSS transforms and pseudo-elements, with graceful degradation for older browsers.
Discover five lesser-known Emmet.io shortcuts for HTML and CSS that can significantly boost your coding productivity.
A guide to automatically download the latest SQL database backup daily using shell scripts and cron jobs on Unix systems.
The author argues Java's bloated toolchain creates a high barrier to entry for casual FOSS contributors, based on personal experience.
A roundup of Python news from October 2013, covering NHS tech changes, Microsoft's IPython donation, PyCharm updates, and conference announcements.
A web developer argues that content is the fundamental core of the web, more important than marketing, design, or development trends.
An explanation of Python decorators, covering how functions are objects and can be passed as arguments or returned.
A personal recap of the 2013 Digital Visions conference in Vienna, covering talks on front-end development and UX.
A community-driven AngularJS style guide and best practices repository for developers.
Analyzes the flaws in Hacker News and Reddit ranking algorithms and proposes a randomized solution to improve content discovery.
A guide to lazy prefetching of AngularJS partials to improve performance in Single-Page Applications (SPAs).
A tutorial explaining the Python yield keyword, generators, and iterables with code examples.
A blog post sharing a useful Python 2.7 Quick Reference guide for developers to look up functions and syntax.
A review of the ZeroMQ book, praising its coverage of the technology and its advanced software development concepts.
An in-depth guide explaining the concept of metaclasses in Python, exploring how classes are objects and can be created dynamically.
A guide on using the grunt-connect-proxy tool to bypass CORS restrictions during local web development.
