Regular expressions from noob to ninja (part I)

I for one have to admit, one of my worse flaws as a web developer was not being able to completely work with regular expressions. There, I said it. I would just normally find a working RE on the web and past it right on my code. However, you have to agree with me, in [...]

Will it scale ?

“Does MySQL scale ?”, “Does Rails scale ?”, “Will Django Scale ?”. Any association with the web show “Will it blend” are merely coincidental. Or is it ? This article targets on the most top asked question today for developers and anyone related to technology. Which is “Yeah, but does _____ scale ?”. Everyone seems [...]

Do you really need to create your own framework ?

I don’t know if it’s just me, but every time a new framework hype arrives you get all this discussions between people who say wonderful things about it, and people who just hate them, or simply don’t care. As a professional web developer for almost 9 years and a web/internet enthusiast for, well…almost my entire [...]

Books you should be reading right now

If you work as a developer, designer or something in between, you know you must update your skills. It’s like fuel, you got to have it, otherwise you will end up in a dead end with little work, or worse, no work at all. If you are like me, you hate being outdated and you [...]

Change your wallpaper with Python

From a while I’ve been coding in Python. Exploring it’s potentialities . And they’re a lot, from topnotch frameworks like Django, to an excellent easy to read syntax, nice graphic libraries and a great participative community. Today we I will show you how to create a script that allows you to change your desktop wallpaper [...]