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Codementor: Subtleties of Python

Link: https://www.codementor.io/packt/subtleties-of-python-psbjduwls

A good software engineer understands how crucial attention to detail is; minute details, if overlooked, can make a world of difference between a working unit and a disaster. That’s why writing...
Stack Abuse: Handling Unix Signals in Python

Link: https://stackabuse.com/handling-unix-signals-in-python/

UNIX/Linux systems offer special mechanisms to communicate between each individual process. One of these mechanisms are signals, and belong to the different methods of communication between processes
Shannon -jj Behrens: PyCon Notes: PostgreSQL Proficiency for Python People

Link: http://www.jjinux.com/2014/04/pycon-notes-postgresql-proficiency-for.html

In summary, this tutorial was fantastic! I learned more in three hours than I would have learned if I had read a whole book!Here's the video. Here are the slides. Here are my notes:Christophe Pettus w
Shannon -jj Behrens: JJ's Mostly Adequate Summary of the Django Meetup: When *Not* To Use the ORM & Goodbye REST: Building GraphQL APIs with Django

Link: http://www.jjinux.com/2018/11/jjs-mostly-adequate-summary-of-django.html

The Django meetup was at Prezi. They have a great space. They are big Django users.Goodbye REST: Building APIs with Django and GraphQLJaden Windle, @jaydenwindle, lead engineer at Jetpack.https://gith
gamingdirectional: Create a game over scene for pygame project

Link: http://gamingdirectional.com/blog/2018/12/01/python-3/

In this article we are going to create a game over scene for the pygame project, we will use back the start scene class which we have created previously to render our game over scene by slightly modif
Talk Python to Me: #188 Async for the Pythonic web with Sanic

Link: https://talkpython.fm/episodes/show/188/async-for-the-pythonic-web-with-sanic

What do most web servers do most of the time? They wait. They wait on external systems while processing a request.
James Bennett: On degrees

Link: https://www.b-list.org/weblog/2018/jan/08/degrees/

Lately there’s been a recurring discussion on various social-media outlets about the relevance of academic degrees to a career in programming. Specifically: is a degree in computer science (or some ot
Guido van Rossum: What to do with your computer science career

Link: http://neopythonic.blogspot.com/2018/11/what-do-do-with-your-computer-science.html

I regularly receive questions from students in the field of computer science looking for career advice.Here's an answer I wrote to one of them. It's not comprehensive or anything, but I thought people
Davy Wybiral: Getting Started with GPS Modules | Tracking Device | Tutorial

Link: http://davywybiral.blogspot.com/2018/12/getting-started-with-gps-modules.html

Today I took a GPS module and a microcontroller for a walk in the park and wrote a few lines of code to show my GPS coordinates in real-time.
Davy Wybiral: Experimenting with Electric Paint

Link: http://davywybiral.blogspot.com/2018/10/experimenting-with-electric-paint.html

Just recently I got my hands on some electrically conductive paint and decided to put it to the test. It functions well for creating resistive elements like custom potentiometers, and also seems to wo
Yasoob Khalid: Email Security & Privacy

Link: https://pythontips.com/2018/12/01/email-security-privacy/

Hi everyone! I hope all of you are doing well. Things have been super exciting on my side. Just got done with a file system checker project in C for my Operating Systems class. It was mentally drainin
Weekly Python StackOverflow Report: (cliv) stackoverflow python report

Link: http://python-weekly.blogspot.com/2018/12/cliv-stackoverflow-python-report.html

These are the ten most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.Between brackets: [question score / answers count]Build date: 2018-12-01 21:40:29 GMTLongest word chain from a list of words - [28/9]
Red Hat Developers: What, No Python in RHEL 8 Beta?

Link: https://developers.redhat.com/blog/2018/11/27/what-no-python-in-rhel-8-beta/

TL;DR Of course we have Python! You just need to specify if you want Python 3 or 2 as we didn’t want to set a default. Give yum install python3 and/or yum install python2 a try. Or, if you want to see
gamingdirectional: Create a next level scene for pygame project

Link: http://gamingdirectional.com/blog/2018/12/02/python-4/

In this article we will create a next level scene which will be displayed whenever the player has gained 30 points. Just like the previous chapter we are going to use back the start scene class as wel
Vasudev Ram: Tower of Hanoi program in Higher-Order Perl book, ported to Python

Link: http://jugad2.blogspot.com/2018/12/tower-of-hanoi-program-in-higher-order.html

Hi, readers,I was reading the book Higher Order Perl (Wikipedia entry). It is by Mark Jason Dominus, a well-known figure in the Perl community. I've only read a bit of it so far, but it already looks
gamingdirectional: Create a win scene and the level manager class for pygame project

Link: http://gamingdirectional.com/blog/2018/12/03/python-pygame/

In this article we will create a pop up win scene when the player has won all the levels which it will then ask the player whether he wants to start the game all over again or not? We will also create
Techiediaries - Django: CSS Grid Layout Tutorial—Styling a Django Template

Link: https://www.techiediaries.com/css-grid-tutorial/

Throughout this tutorial, we'll learn about CSS Grid Layout. We'll be using a Django template.
There are many popular techniques for creating responsive layouts. In this tutorial, we'll be building a