Turning a list of dicts into a ReStructured Text table
I recently found myself having to prepare a report of some mortgage calculations so that non-technical domain experts could read it, evaluate it, and tell me whether my math and the way I was using certain APIs was correct. Since I’m using Python, I decided to...Refactoring: Consolidate Duplicate Conditional Fragments; in Java, Python and Ruby
I’m reading the book Refactoring and one of the refactorings it shows is called “Consolidate Duplicate Conditional Fragments” and it shows an example in Java: if (isSpecialDeal()) { total = price * 0.95; send(); } else { total = price * 0.98; send();...Are dynamic languages just a temporary workaround?
This can unleash so much hate mail, but here it goes, my inbox is ready! Are dynamic languages just a temporary workaround? I’m not sure! I’m switching between the two types of languages all the time: Java, Python, C#, JavaScript. I’ll try to make...Formating strings in C#, like in Python
I like Python’s way to format strings because you can use it everywhere, it’s part of the strings. You can do print(“Welcome %s!” % user.name) as you can do Console.Writeln(“Welcome {0}!”, user.Name) But then in Python you can also...Currently working on:
MoviePal
Spend less time choosing, and more time watching movies.
MoviePal helps you and your partner or your friends choose what movies to watch. It’s a social network that lets you connect with friends, rate movies, get recommendations, run watch parties, keep your list of movies to watch, etc.
Bestie
Don’t ask for help,
get help.
It’s an app to help friends check in on each other. Periodically it will ask: Are you okay? If there’s no response it will alert your friends to reach out to you. When you are down, all you need to do is nothing.
I'm writting a book...
Building and Managing
Distributed Teams
In this book I distill the techniques and methods that I’ve been using and advising others to use to successfully run distributed teams and whole companies. This book will be short, to the point, tactical, and have tool recommendations.
