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I looked into this for an audio app, and it looked really cool. Then I contacted him to find out what contingencies were in place because of the truck number of 1 (!!). I asked him…

(Ok, take two without attachment) Hi, I'm a self-taught, 39 year old Python web/database coder, now looking to get into a full time position after 8 years of freelancing. My proble…

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Hi, I'm a self-taught, 39 year old Python web/database coder, now looking to get into a full time position after 8 years of freelancing. My problem (I think?) is that I'm not what …

As is so often the case, IMHO the poster is ignoring the business side of the equation in favour of "correct". A good ORM is fantastic for speeding up development . If you design y…

Further to this, as fallible humans, we usually get the design wrong on the first try. The truly multi-paradigm nature of python has for me made it a really great language for refa…

For me, Python is the only language that addresses the human side of programming well. You just plain make fewer mistakes with Python, and it's way easier to reload code into your …

I would add that the data mapper pattern gives you very fine grained control over what objects and attributes of the object are matched to which tables. So refactoring either your …

With the exception of repoze.bfg, I think repoze.bfg is even more flexible.

I agree with that assessment with the exception of the repoze.who comment. Repoze.who is bad ass. It takes a while to get your head around it, but at the end, it is far and away th…

Just buy these two books. You won't use everything in both, but they will give you enough ideas and perspective to make them both very worth reading: "Making Things Happen" - OReil…

To be fair, I should point out that it's much easier to get new developers going on Django, and that the monolithic approach gives people a much better out-of-box experience. Just …

I've use Django, Pylongs, TG, and repoze.bfg. It's quite different. A vastly oversimplified metaphor would be unix to OSX. Django is a monolithic all in one environment where every…

This is totally true, with one giant caveat: how much you are worth will not sell itself. You will get referrals, but you need to make sure that you are negotiating properly or you…

I'm a freelancer in web dev and show biz and have done a lot of sales in that area. Brian Tracey's "Advanced Selling Strategies" is probably the best single book out there for indi…

For a self taught programmer, I find it quite interesting to see which areas I've gotten up to 3 or 4 and which are 2. ( Thankfully none are lower! ) Though obviously it's going to…