Learning to program is like learning to write good natural language. The best way to do it is to read some stuff written by masters of the form, write some things yourself, read a lot more, write a little more, read a lot more, write some more ... and repeat until your writing begins to develop the kind of strength and economy you see in your models.
The more I write code and design systems, the more I understand that many times, you can achieve the desired functionality simply with clever reconfigurations of the basic Unix tool set.
In an earlier post, I said that key to government opening its data to citizens, being more transparent, and improving the relationship between citizens and government in light of our web 2.0 world was ensuring content on government sites could be easily found in search engines. Architecting sites to be search engine friendly, particularly sites with as much content and legacy code as those the government manages, can be a resource-intensive process that takes careful long-term planning. But two keys are assessing who the audience is and what they're searching for and also ensuring the site architecture is easily crawlable...
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Sync a fork of a repository to keep it up-to-date with the upstream repository. Tip: Before you can sync your fork with an upstream repository, you must configure a remote that points to the u…
This resource covers many areas of webpage authoring beyond HTML including Cascading Style Sheets, JavaScript, Dynamic HTML, CGI, Graphics Design, Ethics and Design, Publicizing and Promoting your Website, and Frequently Asked Questions.
In this DigitalOcean article, we'll begin with expanding our knowledge on the excellent Gunicorn WSGI HTTP Server and continue with deploying Python WSGI web applications built atop various popular frameworks.
In his latest Transforming XML column Bob DuCharme begins a multipart exploration of some of the features of the forthcoming XSLT 2.0 release. In this column DuCharme discusses the new support for tokenizing strings.