I wanted to make a font based on my handwriting using only free software. It turns out that FontForge can be scripted with Python. I know just a little about Python and even less about typography, but I managed to hack together something that worked for m... (more…)

I’ve recently started using the starmap function in python quite frequently in my analyses. I think it has several advantages including readability, flexability, and above all, very simple parallelism. In this post I’ll cover what the starmap function...

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At the end of this tutorial, you will have created a few PHP apps using SQL Server running on your Ubuntu 16.04 machine. You will have also tried out some cool SQL Server features we think you'll love.

One year ago I was introduced by my friend Roberto Ciatti to the concept of Clean Architecture, as it is called by Robert Martin. The well-known Uncle Bob talks a lot about this concept at conferences and wrote some very interesting posts about it. What h...