At work, I’m doing a bunch of data acquisition on various machines outside the firewall. I think I’ve hit on an absolutely great combination of Python technologies to do this in a really manageable and scalable manner.
The design constraints:
No long-running processes. These are heavily loaded boxes. The data acquisition will run via […]
Tags: Design · Libraries · Python
Sometimes I have to remind myself why I am writing a brand-new shopping cart and product management system.
Web Design From Scratch has a nice, well illustrated article on Current Style in Web Design.
Of course, I don’t want to advocate always running with the herd, but in this case I’d argue that it isn’t so much the herd, but more of a pack. OK, so that isn’t such a great metaphor. […]
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Smart Money Daily points out a great resource for website usability guidelines. Created by the US national cancer institute, it gives more than simple “give img tags ‘alt’ attributes’. Instead, it goes into why you should do so, and even more importantly, what evidence there is that this is an important guideline for […]
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