Category Archives: Python

A Cross Platform Mikromedia HID Bootloader

Posted on 3. September 2014 by Lucio Di Jasio

I love the bootloader that comes with all MikroElektronika products, and in particular the Mikromedia boards (and can be used with the ‘Graphics, Touch, Sound and USB’ book), but for one thing… it does NOT run on my platform of choice: … Continue reading →

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Weekend Reading Recommendations

Posted on 21. July 2014 by Lucio Di Jasio

Architects look at thousands of buildings during their training, and study critiques of those buildings written by masters. In contrast, most software developers only ever get to know a handful of large programs well—usually programs they wrote themselves—and never study … Continue reading →

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Python Most Popular Among Top U.S. Universities

Posted on 9. July 2014 by Lucio Di Jasio

Python is now the most popular introductory teaching language at top U.S. universities! http://cacm.acm.org/blogs/blog-cacm/176450-python-is-now-the-most-popular-introductory-teaching-language-at-top-us-universities/fulltext

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Temboo and the IoT Babel Tower

Posted on 29. June 2014 by Lucio Di Jasio

I recently discovered Temboo, and after playing with it for a few minutes I was able to get a short Python script accessing a complex Google API I had never seen before running and delivering useful data to my .. … Continue reading →

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My Top 5 Python Videos

Posted on 5. March 2014 by Lucio Di Jasio

The Python community continues to fascinate me. The amount of work (code) that is being shared and the breadth of the applications supported  keeps expanding. To try and learn something new every day I read quasi-regularly the postings on Planet.Python.org which … Continue reading →

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Compiling Python Code with PyPy

Posted on 19. February 2014 by Lucio Di Jasio

I have been watching recently some interesting videos recorded from the last few editions of the PYCON US conference. In particular my passion for (programming) languages  attracted me to those from Alex Gaynor ( a VERY young and talented programmer / presenter) … Continue reading →

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About Distributed Version Control Systems

Posted on 14. September 2013 by Lucio Di Jasio

Working on the PyMite project recently, I have been exposed for the first  time to  Mercurial a distributed version control system. That is when I was just starting to feel confident that I could handle a more traditional VCS such … Continue reading →

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