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Javascript Templating Languages
I have been looking at JavaScript templating libraries recently for a personal
project and I’d like to write about my thoughts here.
Up until now, I had only really needed to use JavaScript on the client side, in
the browser. While most libraries...
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Pickling Objects with Cached Properties
Python descriptors allow you to create properties on python objects
that are the result of executing some code. One of the simplest ways of doing
that is using the @property decorator. Here, accessing the myprop will
call the method and return the...
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Some General Trends in Programming Languages
There are a number of next generation of languages that have come out and are
becoming popular in recent years that are trying to use what has been learned
from large development projects. Some of the more popular languages aimed at
servers are Go...
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New Year’s Python Meme 2014
Since everyone else was doing it I thought I’d write one up too.
What’s the coolest Python application, framework or library you discovered this year?
Luigi: A data processing pipeline framework written by some folks at Spotify. I gave a talk...
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App Engine Pull Queues and kombu
App Engine provides a pull queue API
for accessing, leasing, and processing tasks outside of App Engine. You might
do this to perform long running tasks that aren’t suited to App Engine’s
infrastructure. Or you might want to use a library or syste...
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PyCon APAC 2013
PyCon APAC 2013 is over! I want to thank
everyone who helped make the conference a great success. Staff,
speakers, attendees alike all contributed to making PyCon APAC 2013 the
best PyCon in Japan ever.
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Using jQuery deferreds with Backbone.js
Backbone.js is a neat little JavaScript model framework. It gives you nice way of making Models and allows you to fetch and save them to the server easily using a REST API. One of the nice things about Backbone is that for a while it has returned ...
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Learning a Language as Muscle Memory
Note: This post is cross-posted from my post on medium.
I learned a lot from learning a second language. I started learning Japanese on my own and moved to Japan several years ago. I now work at a Japanese company where I spend most of my d...
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Testing the new Photo Sphere Widget
Testing out the new photo sphere widget. The widget below is a photo
sphere of our trip to Great Falls Park.
You can find out more about how to embed the widget here:
https://developers.google.com/panorama/web
Another working example is here: ...
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Google App Engine 1.7.7 pre-release
Note
**Update:** App Engine 1.7.7 final has been released and is available
here: <https://developers.google.com/appengine/downloads>
The App Engine 1.7.7 pre-release SDKs were
released
about a week ago and I finally got around to...
