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As a hypothetical, I was asked about doing Oracle Analytic functions in Python. [ Sidebar: Politics . The question came from a DBA in a C# ...

Imagine that you're a beer distributor who provides "just-in-time" beer by type. You don't take orders for a specific bra...

I'm rewriting Building Skills in Python . 2.7 is out. As more libraries make the move, 3.1 is getting more and more viable. I'm lo...

The question of "customization" and "extension" is a common one. For example, "non-technical users to be able to e...

Got an email with links about NoSQL. Links like " Going NoSQL with MongoDB ". This -- like many such articles -- includes the ph...

Here's a great post called " Toward a Catalog of Scrum Smells ". This lists some "Management Smells": specifically ...

Here's an interesting -- and common -- question. "... any tools that I could use to create a web scraper that I could use to intera...