- Review of "Building Node Applications with MongoDB and Backbone"
The O'Reilly book on cutting-edge web development encourages some bad habits but also demonstrates a lot of useful, elegant patterns.
- Slides from my PyCon lightning talk on Toro
Toro is my package with locks, events, conditions, semaphores, and queues for Tornado coroutines.
- Plop: Python Profiler With Call Graphs
Ben Darnell's Plop project promises a low profiling impact on running systems, and shows pretty call graphs.
- What It's Like To Work For 10gen
Robot battles, concurrency bugs, and loyalty.
- Knowing When A Python Thread Has Died
Sometimes thread.join() isn't enough.
- Python's += Is Weird, Part II
I wrote the other day about two things I think are weird about Python's += operator. In the comments, famed Twisted hacker Jean-Paul Calderone showed me something far, far weirder. This post is a record of me playing around and trying to [ ... ]
- Python's += Is Weird
Image: William Warby on Flickr Here's a Python gotcha I've hit often enough to merit a blog post: x += 1 is weird in Python. It's compiled roughly like x = x + 1, with two surprising consequences. One is this familiar pitfall: >>> x = 0 [ ... ]
- MotorConnection Has Been Renamed MotorClient
- Yes, Every MongoDB Driver Supports Every Command
- Reading from MongoDB Replica Sets with PyMongo
