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Peter Bhat Harkins
Have You Seen This Cache?
Code: C, cache, memcached, Python, referential transparency, Ruby
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It looks like syntax highlighting, image thumbnails, and compiling object files. Let me explain.
Continue this postAn Academic Inconvenience of Python
Code: Python
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Sometimes Python’s roots in academia bug me. Lots of functions have a computer science feel instead of a software development feel. Here’s an example I just ran into: I wanted to fit as many sentences as possible from a long text into 255 characters. So I wrote:
Continue this postOne Laptop Per Chicago
Code: Chicago, grassy knoll, Lucene, OLPC, pylucene, Python, Unicode
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ChiPy held our largest meeting yet at Google (again) last night, so here’s a linkriffic post about it.
Continue this postChiPy at Google
Code: BigTable, Chicago, ChiPy, Google Code, project hosting, Python, Selenium, Subversion
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I had a great time last night at the ChiPy meeting last night that was held at Google’s Chicago office. I suspect a lot of people turned up just to see the venue: usually ChiPy gets 15-20 people but we got 51 last night.
Continue this postRipping Unicode
Code: design, graphics, Python
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I love shoving around large amounts of data. Unicode is an industry standard for encoding data in most every written script there’s ever been. It has over 97,000 characters. A while ago I read about a guy who made his own Unicode poster and I realized I had an opportunity for a fun project. I think Unicode is an invaluable and beautiful project, and this is my tribute to it.
Ripping Unicode at ChiPy
Code: design, graphics, Python
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Last night at the June 2006 ChiPy meeting I gave a presentation on how I wrote a few small Python scripts to take apart the Unicode PDF of all its glyphs and recombine them into giant ascii-art-like posters.
Continue this postStrings are a Domain-Specific Language
Code: assembly, C, Perl, Python, Ruby
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Question: Isn’t a domain-specific language just the same thing as a library?Source: Pretty much everyone the first time they hear of DSLs.
Answer: No, a DSL is much more than a library, and I have an example that won’t make you say, “Well, sure, if you’re doing something that esoteric…”
Continue this postLambda at Work
Code: Python
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Finally, several years after learning lambda expressions, I got a chance to use one at work a few days ago. As long as I’m putting a notch in my nerd belt, I’d like to write about what lambda is and how it can be useful.
Python Flyweights
Code: Python
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When I wrote Equality for Python, my example didn’t mention how the Card objects could actually be a terrific waste of memory. A commenter named versimilidude (great handle!) beat me to this post, briefly describing the Flyweight Pattern. Luckily he didn’t provide example code, so I still get to publish this post.
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