Java was, in some ways, damaging to my career. Java is a simple language but the community surrounding the language seem to hate it.
The community keeps building tools that do little more than work around perceived deficiencies in the language, each replacing each other in a seemingly endless fight to add more project XML files. It seems that managing a few jar files in a lib folder was too difficult, so we got Maven and gobs of XML. Struts was the vogue web framework -- until Struts2 came out, at least. Struts2 was amazing, you know, until it wasn't. There are a thousand different Java projects with their own XML files.
Because I can never find it when I want to, here's how to quickly format a US dollar amount:
>>> from decimal import Decimal >>> '{:,.2f}'.format(Decimal('12312123.1231212')) '12,312,123.12'
This is for Python 2.7 and above.
Thanks, Raymond!
There aren't enough examples online of Fabric scripts as used in the real world. The documentation is good but a real example is always better.
Google might disable an account for a number of reasons. Accounts may be disabled because Google requires real names or because an algorithm decided an account was being used to spam. Accounts can be locked and users are left at the mercy of Google's weak customer service.
I have ported this site to use Hyde, a static website generator written in Python. I had been actually running a static version of my Django blog for sometime (using wget mirror), but Hyde does a great job of making generating a new site, links and templates very easy.
It's been a while since I removed the old monkey patched import function from Jep. I finally got around to adding a nice import hook, so now stuff like this works without breaking things like numpy:
This site (and accompanying backend for NameDropper ) went down about 4am PST this morning due to a Linode outage .
As a current CS student and full time programmer, I am keenly aware of both the rising tuition costs and utter uselessness of a degree as a "signaling" tool to potential employers.
I have procured special permission from the wife so I'm going to the hackathon this weekend. There are still available tickets .
I'm looking forward to hacking Packaginator , too.