Author: M. H. Neifer

About Python 3 and unicode/str/bytes

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You might want to read this interesting article about Python 3 and unicode/str/bytes. Why Python 3 exists Or, the whole unicode/str/bytes thing was done for a reason Brett Cannon Python core developer. http://www.snarky.ca/why-python-3-exists  

Small modules vs. standard library

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Read about small modules vs. standard library in the following blog post from Atlassian developer Will Binns-Smith. https://developer.atlassian.com/blog/2015/11/what-the-web-platform-can-learn-from-nodejs/ I found this an interesting read. Always remember to abstract from standard libraries in your application code.

Software Developers’ Growing Elitism Problem

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Cahlan Sharp writes in TechCrunch about elitism in software development. Interesting read. http://techcrunch.com/2015/11/27/software-developers-growing-elitism-problem/ I wonder if this is specific to software development. Doesn’t every job has its elite? I mean, there are elite designers and elite bankers. Humans want to differentiate themself. Nobody wants […]

Are programmers engineers?

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Wired has an interesting article that discusses the question “what makes an engineer an engineer?” Programmers, Let’s Earn the Right to Be Called Engineers – http://www.wired.com/2015/11/programmers-lets-earn-the-right-to-be-called-engineers/ I think that it is not easy to answer this question, as there are many different programmers out […]

Editors in the cloud(s)

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With more and more things moving into the cloud, you can now find a bunch of online editors for your favourite language. I told you about Plunker in a recent post. But there’s more. jsFiddle – another web IDE for JavaScript SQL Fiddle – […]