Do you like coding puzzles? If so, you should go to AdventOfCode.com and prepare yourself for some funny little coding challenges. Advent of Code is an Advent calendar of small programming puzzles for a variety of skill sets and skill levels that can be solved in any programming language you like. As usual, the Advent …
Back in Oslo at last. After an online edition of NDC Oslo in 2020 and the travel restrictions at the start of the Omicron wave in 2021, I haven’t been to Oslo for a while. Visiting in September is in many ways different from June. It is colder, and it gets dark early (around 7 …
For the last 5 years I posed at least one post per week. I like to take a moment to celebrate this milestone and look back on how I did this and what I learned in doing so. The NDC 2017 had a long-lasting effect on me. Especially the presentation by Troy Hunt on “Hack …
For some posts code is not enough. An animated image that shows the effect of a code snipped helps much more than hundreds words of additional explanation. But how can we create animations like this one I made for the progress bar example? ScreenToGif The little tool ScreenToGif is a great help. You can …
It is time for a little celebration: In the last hours of March my blog hit the 1,000,000 page views milestone: My blog started with the post Introducing RavenDB: NoSQL for .Net and over last 7.5 years 330 more posts followed. Some small, some big and often written just for the purpose to help me …
At the start of 2021 it is time to look back at one year of Python Friday. Am I still on track? What worked? And what would I make different? This post is part of my journey to learn Python. You can find the other parts of this series here. What was the goal? …
Code katas are little exercises that help you to improve your programming skills. My favourite one is the Gilded Rose kata. It was originally created by Terry Hughes and is now maintained by Emily Bache (@emilybache). While most katas start from scratch, the Gilded Rose kata comes with existing code that you need to modify. …
While listening to Talk Python to Me, I noticed an ad for the Talk Python Training Humble Bundle. As it turns out, this package offers a great value for your money – but this offering will only last for about 5 more days. Act quickly if you are interested. This post is part of my …
I find podcasts an efficient way to learn more about a programming language. Not so much about the syntax or writing code itself, but about the tools, the ideas and the community. In todays post I give you a list of 5 podcasts I find interesting for Python developers. This post is part of my …
The ecosystem of Python with all the helpful third-party libraries makes it such a productive language. It is therefore time to look where we can find them and how we can install those packages. For this post I use the term packages to describe the distribution units of Python code, not the way how you …