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codingdirectional: Return the first capital character of a name

Link: http://codingdirectional.info/2019/02/07/return-the-first-capital-character-of-a-name/

I am still preparing the material for the next python project and in order to keep this website alive, I will continue to solve easy questions from codewars so at least we have something to talk about
Python Anywhere: Announcing eu.pythonanywhere.com

Link: https://blog.pythonanywhere.com/176/

We're proud to announce today that we now have an EU-hosted PythonAnywhere system :-) You can access it at eu.pythonanywhere.com. It's completely separated from our normal system, but has all of th
Python Data: Quick Tip – Speed up Pandas using Modin

Link: https://pythondata.com/quick-tip-speed-up-pandas-using-modin/

I ran across a neat little library called Modin recently that claims to run pandas faster. The one line sentence that they use to describe the project is:
Speed up your Pandas workflows by changing a
John Cook: Exploring the sum-product conjecture

Link: https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2019/02/07/sum-product/

Quanta Magazine posted an article yesterday about the sum-product problem of Paul Erdős and Endre Szemerédi. This problem starts with a finite set of real numbers A then considers the size of the sets
Stack Abuse: PyTesseract: Simple Python Optical Character Recognition

Link: https://stackabuse.com/pytesseract-simple-python-optical-character-recognition/

Introduction
Humans can understand the contents of an image simply by looking. We perceive the text on the image as text and can read it.
Computers don't work the same way. They need something more co
Nigel Babu: The Funniest Incident Postmortem

Link: https://nigelb.me/2019-02-08-the-funniest-incident-postmortem

Recently, I had a chance to think about an outage that I debugged and fixed a few years ago that involves Jenkins and systemd (or in this case lack thereof!).
Generally, if you want to run a task at t
Wingware News: Wing Python IDE 7.0.0.6 Early Access

Link: https://wingware.com/news/2019-02-08

Wing 7 is now available through our early access program. It improves the code
warnings system, adds an array and data frame viewer, supports PEP 3134 chained
exceptions, improves bookmarking, extends
PyCon: PyCon 2020-2021 Location

Link: https://pycon.blogspot.com/2019/02/pycon-2020-2021-location.html

Now that registration and planning are well underway for PyCon 2019 in Cleveland, the PSF is pleased to announce that the home for PyCon 2020 and 2021 will be Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania! The conference
codingdirectional: Counts the points of our team in the championship

Link: http://codingdirectional.info/2019/02/09/counts-the-points-of-our-team-in-the-championship/

Hello and today we will continue to solve the problem posted on codewars, if you have not yet joined codewars then I really encourage you to do so because this site is a real deal for those of you who
gamingdirectional: Create a player object in pygame

Link: http://gamingdirectional.com/blog/2019/02/09/create-a-player-object-in-pygame/

In this article, we will create a player sprite class which will render the player image on the game scene. First, we will create the player object class which serves as the container for the player’s
codingdirectional: Return the day in a week with python

Link: http://codingdirectional.info/2019/02/09/return-the-day-in-a-week-with-python/

Hi, I just have a time to solve another python question today. In this example, we are going to develop a method which will receive a number from the user input and returns which day in a week is that
Weekly Python StackOverflow Report: (clxiv) stackoverflow python report

Link: http://python-weekly.blogspot.com/2019/02/clxiv-stackoverflow-python-report.html

These are the ten most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.Between brackets: [question score / answers count]Build date: 2019-02-09 12:27:10 GMTHow to combine similar characters in a list? - [
PyPy Development: Düsseldorf Sprint Report 2019

Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/PyPyStatusBlog/~3/XISOIj7ytEY/dusseldorf-sprint-report-2019.html

Hello everyone!
We are happy to report a successful and well attended sprint that is wrapping up
in Düsseldorf, Germany. In the last week we had eighteen people sprinting
at the Heinrich-Heine-Univers
Talk Python to Me: #198 Catching up with the Anaconda distribution

Link: https://talkpython.fm/episodes/show/198/catching-up-with-the-anaconda-distribution

It's time to catch up with the Anaconda crew and see what's new in the Anaconda distribution. This edition of Python was created to solve some of the stickier problems of deployment, especially in the
Davide Moro: High quality automated docker hub push using Github, TravisCI and pyup for Python tool distributions

Link: http://davidemoro.blogspot.com/2019/02/automated-docker-hub-push-travisci-pyup-python.html

Let's say you want to distribute a Python tool with docker using known good dependency versions ready to be used by end users... In this article you will see how to continuously keeping up to date a D
Kushal Das: When I was sleepy

Link: https://kushaldas.in/posts/when-i-was-sleepy.html



Back in 2005 I joined my first job, in a software company in Bangalore. It was a
backend of a big foreign bank. We trained heavily on different parts of software
development during the first few mon