February 21, 2014 by
Mike I'm sure some of you have been wondering if I had a more concrete outline of the book that I am currently writing. As a matter of fact, I do. Here's what I have so far: Part One: Learning the Basics Chapter 1 - IDLE Chapter 2 - Strings Chapter 3 - Lists, Tuples and […]
February 19, 2014 by
Mike My readers have been asking me to write a book for a few years now and I've finally decided to bite the bullet and give it a go. For my first book, I decided to write something that's for beginners and intermediate programmers. There will be four parts to the book with the first part […]
February 18, 2014 by
Mike Last year, Packt Publishing asked me to be a technical reviewer for a book called Python High Performance Programming by Gabriele Lanaro. It was published in December, 2013. For those of you with short attention spans, I give you my short review: Quick Review Why I picked it up: I got it for free, but […]
February 14, 2014 by
Mike I work with a lot of dictionaries at my job. Sometimes the dictionaries get really complicated with lots of nested data structures embedded within them. Recently I got a little tired of trying to remember all the keys in my dictionaries so I decided to change one of my dictionaries into a class so I […]
February 14, 2014 by
Mike The people at Packt Publishing recently sent me an ebook copy of Raúl Garreta and Guillermo Moncecchi's book, Learning scikit-learn: Machine Learning in Python to review. Machine learning isn't a topic I'm very familiar with, but I gave the book a shot as it sounded interesting. I'll start off with my quick review for those […]
February 11, 2014 by
Mike Python's logging module has lots of options. In this article, we will looks at the logging module's ability to create Rotating Logs. Python supports two types of rotating logs: Rotate logs based on size (RotatingFileHandler) Rotate the logs based on some time interval (TimedRotatingFileHandler) Let's spend some time learning how each of these two types […]
