the occasional occurrence

I’ve been reading the recent posts on CodeTalker with interest. I’ve written a handful of parsers using two different parser generators for Python: PLY and SimpleParse. My most recent work with parsing has had me gravitating toward SimpleParse so I thought I’d see how it stacks up against CodeTalker.
First I checked the web [...]

I had a situation at work the other day where I had made a number of local commits to the default branch of my repo. I wanted to push them upstream to our central server but the feature was incomplete and I didn’t want to break anything in case someone needed to make a [...]

I noticed the same question on c.l.p that Steve Ferg responded to on his blog. I was feeling too lazy to respond to the thread earlier but I thought I’d throw my idea up on the ol’ blog before wrapping up for the day.
I think this is a classic use-case for class methods. Here [...]

Spent the morning working from a coffee shop. I was feeling hip and fresh.
I came home and was going to whip up a sammich for lunch and then get back to work.
Opened the bread to make the sammich and then had to go and bring the puppy back in the house. [...]

I work at YouGov and we use the Mercurial for revision control.
We tag every release in a MAJOR.MINOR.BUGFIX format. 2.32.2 for example.
Recently I wanted to get a summary of the commit log messages for each of the tagged revisions. Here is the magic command that got me the output that I wanted:

# get [...]

I’m going through Real World Haskell trying to get a handle on the Haskell programming language. Python is my current language of choice, but I like to learn new programming languages too.

So last night I was going over the chapter that introduces ‘let’, ‘where’, ‘case’ and guards and I wanted to try them out. I contrived a simple situation where I thought I could use them.

Here’s a great overview of using PiCloud that goes beyond “hello world” type stuff.
For those of you who don’t know, PiCloud is a cloud computing platform for Python that aims to simplify the task of running code in “the cloud.”
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Our family is so excited and blessed to welcome Aubrey into the world.

She was born this morning at 7:11am EST. She weighed in at 8lbs. 1oz. and is 19″ long. Mom and baby are doing well. I’m doing great!
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From the ShopTalk blog:
The Minimum Viable Tree House
A case-study in what not to do with your software project.

Some guy on some other blog wrote this. His name sounds familiar …
Beautiful Coroutines: Cooperative Concurrency in Python using Diesel
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