With comments in the code we can record our thoughts and considerations that led to our implementation. While this is a great help for developers that need to change the code, it is often not helpful to those who just want to use it – they are drown in detail and miss the big picture. …
Pluralsight offers many great courses on Python. Even better, they currently run the #FREEAPRIL campaign in which you can watch all their videos in the month of April for free. To give you a head start, I collected in this post 5 courses I can recommend for learning Python. This post is part of my …
While we should try to make our code as understandable as possible, sometimes we need to add comments. In this post I show you your options to add a comment to your Python code. This post is part of my journey to learn Python. You can find the other parts of this series here. …
When you start learning a new programming language, you will first fight a lot with the syntax. Before you even can run your program you already get an error that you need to fix. After a while those syntax errors get less and less, and you can focus on creating a working application. You quickly …
After 10 posts about learning Python it is time for a little bit of fun. You can find the other more serious parts of this series here. Your Python interpreter comes with an Easter egg that reminds you of the guidelines for the design of the Python language. All you need to do is to …
It is the time of the year where most new year’s resolutions are already forgotten. Should you still want to learn new things I have a great podcast for your. It is not about the shiny new frameworks, instead it will help you to improve your existing applications. The podcast Legacy Code Rocks! hosted by …
Git is a powerful version control system for which you only need a few commands to get your daily tasks done. However, Git can do a lot more – but those commands are hard to remember and when you use them wrong, you may mess up your repository. You can find many great resources to …
After nearly 10 years it was time to migrate the website of the .Net User Group Bern. In the last part I explained my work on the transformation of the data and how we extended it to support new requirements. With all the data in the new structure, it is now time to load it …
Whenever I want to explain something that requires a database, I have to spend a lot of time to create the tables and test data before I even can start with the part I want to show. The more time I spend with the setup, the less time I have to write the blog posts. …
Last week I attended the great workshop “SOA Done Right” by Daniel Marbach and Adam Ralph (organised by the .Net User Group Bern). They did an incredible job to explain SOA, services and how designing for loosely coupled systems differ from an entity-first approach. I learned a lot in the workshop and still need a …