Ollivander - a wand is not enough - is my committed tech blog, where I write about software development, technologies, methodologies, people, or where I just shed some good rants.
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This seems a simple enough question: How can I discover the type of any given Python object? Suppose Python 2.7 (Python 3 is a different beast on this topic), and try implementing such function: def discover_type_of_object(obj): """ Args: obj: Any python object Returns:
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Some years ago, a git workflow model called git-flow took the software development world by storm. I'd always thought that the workflow was far too complex and I couldn't figure out what purpose it served. Now, after having used it for some months, I can just
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Each and every time I think about Parkinson's law, I think that Cyril Northcote Parkinson was a sort of genius, who could gain a great insight into people's heads. For the few that have never heard about it, it's as simple as: Work expands
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A bit of wrap-up after part 1 and part 2 Current state of the things I seem to have missed something: there's now a very active Python Packaging Authority which is trying very hard to push Python packaging in the right direction, so that we can have a
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Check out part 1 for my thoughts on what packaging and dependency management should be. I forgot about this post and left it in a draft state for quite a lot of time, I'm sorry! How Python messed it up A Diaspora of Tools There's a
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There's a practice of good programming which is often referred as One Assertion Per Test. In the opinion of some people, this practice would advocate the usage of a single call to xunit assert method for each test. I think that idea is plainly wrong. Saying "One
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This is a spinoff from my Europython 2012 talk (video, slides). Some days ago I got involved in a brief discussion on the topic, so here's what I think about Python packaging and dependency management: it's in a very bad state, requires a lot of manual
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I don't like php, and I've got my reasons. I've met a lot of people who dislike PHP and don't see how possibly anyone, anyhow, could think about ever using PHP in any real-world project out there, and simply dismiss PHP as
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So, here we come to our second part; if you did miss the first, it's there. All of the following discussion is relative to Sun Java 6, but most details - if not every detail - is still valid for Java 7 and 8. Let's see
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Before going on with this post, be sure you've read The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets (No Excuses!) - otherwise, I won't be able to solve your issues. Sometimes Java fans just say that Python Unicode support
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UPDATE: Most of this is pointless on IDEA >= 11 and PyCharm >= 2, since a Tools -> Create desktop entry menu now exists and will let you do everything my launcher did. You'll need to reinstall it at every update - or just use the symlink
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Heroku Java support is something I longed for, but they apparently don't support deploying a plain, old war file to Heroku. I don't like that; I've got my own continuous integration setup, and I want to compile my files on my own box -