Bio and Publications

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Tuesday, March 31, 2015

This is awkward

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Years ago -- many years ago -- I self-published three books on Python. I also set up a Google Group, Building Skills Books , for a discuss...
Tuesday, March 24, 2015

Configuration Files, Environment Variables, and Command-Line Options

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We have three major tiers of configuration for applications. Within each tier, we have sub-tiers, larding on yet more complexity. The organi...
Tuesday, March 17, 2015

Building Skills in Object-Oriented Design

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New Kindle Edition of Building Skills in Object-Oriented Design . It seems to work okay in my Kindle Readers. I'm not sure it's ...
Tuesday, March 10, 2015

It appears that DevOps may be more symptom than solution

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It appears that DevOps may be a symptom of a bigger problem. The bigger problem? Java. Java development -- with a giant framework like Spr...
Tuesday, March 3, 2015

Let's all Build a Hat Rack

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Wound up here: " A Place to Hang Your Hat " and the #LABHR hash tag. H/T to this post: " Building a Hat Rack ." This...
Tuesday, February 24, 2015

Functional Python Programming

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New from Packt Publishing: Functional Python Programming . Also here on Amazon . The fun part is covering generator functions, iterators...
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Tuesday, February 17, 2015

Yet Another Complaint about Python in General, SciPy in Particular

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The context is an ongoing question about optimization -- not my strong suit -- and the SciPy algorithms for this. See Scipy.optimization.ann...