Every single year that I’ve been doing this, I hear about the next “totally awesome” way to write code. And more often than not, the new thing is certainly very shiny. When it comes to projects, with the exception of coding standards (which will be part...
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Creating a successful project – Part 2: Project Organization
Ok, so you’ve familiarized yourself with the rules. Good. This isn’t Fight Club, but they are important rules. You want to be a professional in all the projects on which you want to participate. If properly managed, your GitHub account should be a functional part of...
Continue reading...Creating a successful project – Part 1: The Rules
So, you want to create a project. That’s great! Welcome to the party. I’d like to pass along some general knowledge about how best to approach creating/running a project. Also, I’m not going to say that I know everything there is to know about running a...
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For many of us, as we develop as coders, we want to continue to grow our knowledge. We pour over the standard library (STL) of this wonderful language, looking for hidden gems. There are many such gems in the Python STL. Such as all the fun...
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