There are a lot of things I like about programming in Python, but one of my favorites is how well Python allows code reuse. Between the excellent import semantics and the outrageous level of introspection in Python, just about any piece of Python code (assuming...
Making the Windows command line suck (slightly) less If you’re a developer who’s ever worked on Windows, you’ve had to deal with the Windows Command Prompt, a.k.a. cmd.exe. So you know it’s terrible. It hasn’t changed appreciably in...
Developers tend to have to deal with lots of machines (especially if you include virtual machines). Developers also tend to be pretty picky about their development environments, and the tools they use. That means they tend to want to be able to install a particular...
My plan for this blog post was to introduce my preferred "front-end framework", Zurb Foundation. But then the folks over at Zurb saw fit to sabotage my effort by releasing a new version of Foundation. Can you believe the nerve? So instead I’ll just...
The best laid plans… It started out so simple. The thing you originally designed was just some simple HTML, a bit of CSS, and just enough jQuery to talk to your server back-end and update the DOM. What you ended up maintaining, however, has mutated into a...
