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On a Quick and Dirty Asynchronous Python Client for SimpleGeo

SimpleGeo maintains a Python client library that is both easy to use and feature complete (in terms of API coverage). Searching by long/lat is demonstrated below: 1 2 3 4 5 from simplegeo import Client client = Client("KEY", "SECRET") places … Continue reading

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On Using PyMongo with IronPython

While most .NET developers who want to work with MongoDB focus on C# with NoRM and MongoDB-CSharp, there’s an alternative – IronPython and PyMongo. PyMongo is the 10Gen developed Python driver for MongoDB. It’s actually pretty easy to get it … Continue reading

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On Google App Engine – First Impressions

Google’s App Engine offers an intriguing new rapid development opportunity. Long story short, Google is offering developers a chance to write apps against its App Engine API. Included are features such as a simple web app framework (appropriately called webapp), … Continue reading

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On Inequality in JavaScript

It’s easy to code through life without giving much thought to operator precedence. Of course we wax parenthetical from time to time, remembering my dear aunt sally. But for the most part, we can typically rely on the compiler to … Continue reading

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On My Language Beating up Your Language

Three semesters ago, when I began working as an adjunct, I was faced with a choice. I could start teaching my intro to programming course using the language and tools with which I was most comfortable (C#, VS.NET) or I … Continue reading

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On Using PyDev on a Mac

This post is admittedly for a very small niche of readers. If you are a Windows user – with virtually no Mac experience – and happen to be teaching college students how to program Python with Eclipse then read on… … Continue reading

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