Category Archives: programming
NoSQL v. SQL is the worst holy war ever.
This seems to be filled with religious contention, as demonstrated at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1163039 . Both sides are talking past each other, so I want to lay it out flat. First of all, while NoSQL and RDBMS can sometimes exclude one another, … Continue reading
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python-ldap “expected a string in the list”
This error is given by python-ldap on Python 2.x on certain operations when it receives unicode objects where it expects a str object. Make sure any strings you pass into python-ldap are string type, not unicode type, and this problem … Continue reading
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Joel’s “Duct-Tape Programmer” is the only programmer you should ever hire.
I’ve just finished reading Joel Spolsky’s “Duct Tape Programmers” and jwz’s response to it. These posts strike a chord with me, especially that Spolsky spends the entirety of the article praising “The Duct-Tape Programmer” before he urges you not to … Continue reading
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