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Grant Rettke

The Best Article on Python Decorators

Here it is. ...

by Grant Rettke  on April 13, 2012 3:36 PM  [Read More]


Himanshu Trivedi

Word documents and merging two branches

Do you create word documents? Do you send them for review to your boss? I think, answers of both of these questions will be “yes” for most people, and I’m not exception! MS Word have a good feature – Track Changes. As it’s name suggests, it  tracks the ch ...

by Himanshu Trivedi  on July 20, 2011 1:16 PM  [Read More]


James Roome

You have an iPhone, without a phone plan?

"You have an iPhone, without a phone plan?" "Why, yes I do"I guess if there is one nice thing about having a first gen iPhone, it was relatively easy to buy one and never sign up for a two year contract.Why??I think of the iPhone like an iPod Touch but wi ...

by James Roome  on July 23, 2008 9:00 PM  [Read More]


Nick Schweitzer

Twin Cities Code Camp - Javascript Unit Testing

Thanks to everyone who came out to the Twin Cities Code Camp, where I was among many speakers. This event is huge, and the organizers did a great job, not just with logistics but also in pulling together a lot of great topics, and excellent speakers. For  ...

by Nick Schweitzer  on April 14, 2012 3:21 PM  [Read More]


Deep Shah

How To Force NHibernate to use discriminator while fetching entities for Single Table Per Class Hierarchy Mapping

Recently we faced a very interesting issue with the Single Table Per Class Hierarchy mapping in NHibernate.The Issue:NHibernate would not use the discriminator values while fetching the subclasses of entities mapped using the Single Table Per Class Hierar ...

by Deep Shah  on April 29, 2012 9:23 AM  [Read More]


Lalit Bhatt

What kind of IT team you have got?

In IT world, if the most debated topic is anything, it's about why projects fail? There is for sure more failures than successes. Many successes which are there, at times are forced successes on end users. The end users are provided with no alternatives ...

by Lalit Bhatt  on August 5, 2011 4:21 PM  [Read More]


Sudarshan Bhalerao

Excel Application Object – Unexpected Behavior

In my last article ‘’, I have explained why we choose to use Excel Application object for excel automation and its disposing mechanism. But, while testing we observed following unexpected behavior: If we start processing multiple Excel files through windo ...

by Sudarshan Bhalerao  on August 28, 2011 2:35 PM  [Read More]


Caleb Madrigal

First look at Pylab/Matplotlib

Since I’ve been getting into Machine Learning/Artificial Intelligence recently, I’ve been looking at various computing environments recently. Some of the contenders are: MATLAB – The traditional software stack for doing machine learning  ...

by Caleb Madrigal  on May 17, 2012 3:04 PM  [Read More]


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