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Twisted Network Programming Essentials

By Paul September 18, 2024Book Reviews, PythonNo Comments

This review was originally printed in the June 2013 edition of the UKUUG newsletter, which is now defunct. Title: Twisted Network Programming Essentials (2nd edition)Authors: Abe Fettig, Jessica McKellarISBN: 9781449326111…

Black Hat Python

By Paul July 19, 2023Book Reviews, PythonNo Comments

This review was originally printed in the June 2015 edition of the UKUUG newsletter, which is now defunct. Title: Black Hat Python (1st edition)Authors: Justin SeitzISBN: 9781593275907 As a developer…

A simple accounts package in Python

By Paul May 4, 2017Business, PythonNo Comments

Recently I've been working on 125 Accounts, a simple accounts package written in Python. The main goal is to have an extremely simple system for generating business documents, tracking who owes…

From Perl to Python

By Paul April 19, 2016Perl, PythonNo Comments

As part of the process of relearning Python, I tried converting my csv2qif script from Perl. It took me a while to get round the different syntax, particularly for reading from…

Programming language proficiency

By Paul April 5, 2016C, PHP, Python2 Comments

As a freelancer, I have a degree of control over which languages I invest the time required to achieve a level of proficiency -- albeit somewhat guided by the market…

Relearning Python

By Paul March 31, 2016Python, XML1 Comment

A few weeks ago I posted about the trials of choosing a language and GUI toolkit. The requirements I had meant that I was leaning towards Java -- particularly because…