This contest is now over I have decided to sponsor a contest for my first book, Python 101. I will be giving away 3 copies of my eBook bundle (PDF, EPUB and MOBI) and 1 copy of the paperback, which I will ship anywhere in the world. If you haven't heard of my book, you […]
eGenix announced this week that they were releasing an "open source, one file, no installation version of Python". You can read their entire announcement in their press release here. If you want to check out the actual product, you can get it at the following URL: http://www.egenix.com/products/python/PyRun/. This is a Unix-based Python and they state […]
Every once in a while, I run into a situation where I need dummy data to test my code against. If you need to do tests on a new database or table, you will run into the need for dummy data often. I recently came across an interesting package called Faker. Faker's sole purpose is […]
Recently I ran into an issue where an application that calls Python would insert int into Python's namespace, which overwrites Python's built-in int function. Since I have to use the tool and I needed to use Python's int function, I needed a way around this annoyance. Fortunately, this is fairly easy to fix. All you […]
My first book, Python 101 has been published today. You can buy it directly from my blog which will get you a PDF, EPUB and MOBI version of the book. You can also purchase a softcover edition of the book via Lulu. Finally, I have published the eBook to Amazon. If you happen to run […]
Python 101, the book I am authoring is nearly finished. I had a couple of "proof" copies produced by Lulu to verify things were laying out correctly and to help me find mistakes. Seeing it in print is pretty cool. It also made some oversights pretty obvious, although they're all cosmetic in nature. Anyway, right […]
