The below is mostly a log of my thought process while building out some functionality that I wanted to add into searchcode server. I kept a record of progress and thoughts while doing this in the hopes that I get some sort of useful blog post out of it. I... (more…)
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Microsoft has announced Pylance, a new language server for Python aimed to help programmers write better Python code and improve IntelliSense and Visual Studio Code support for the language. Pylance will eventually replace Microsoft Python Language Server... (more…)
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A guide for installing and using PostgreSQL with Python 3 and psycopg2 on Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial Xerus.
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When we’re working for clients we mostly come across the statistical programming languages SAS, SPSS, R and Python. Of these SAS and SPSS are probably the most used. However, the interest for the open source languages R and Python is increasing. In recent... (more…)
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I love linters. A linter is a program that looks for problems in code without running it. There is something gratifying about running a linter on a codebase and seeing a big list of warnings and errors. Sometimes it can even be fun to fix them! (more…)
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