App Engine is a pretty dramatic thought departure for lots of programmers who are used to writing an app that runs on a single server and access a single database. Case in point, there has been a recurring topic of auto-increment fields on the App Engine list — people trying to implement their own version […]
Noah Gift over on O’Reilly OnLamp Blog has an article on building a greedy coin changer. That is, given a value, say 71 cents, calculate the fewest coins needed to make the amount. He had listed a number of solutions, but I felt I could do it a bit more pythonic.
#!/usr/bin/env python
"""implement […]
Now this is truly an interesting development. Google’s just announced App Engine is sure to super-charge the Python community and convert a number of disillusioned developers of other languages in to Pythonistas. There have been lots of interesting comments floating in the blogosphere about what this could mean.
I think it […]
There is a great article over on SnapLogic, SnapLogic Blog » Squishy design with Python: Designing in code
The gist of the article is that when developing APIs are never as complete as we want them when we are developing a new system and if you are using a static language you’ve got lots of ramifications […]