If you’re new to Python web development with Django, there are some things that tutorials don’t teach. Deploying to a server when you finish your local development can be a frustrating task. Here is a rundown of the tools and workflow I use for deploying a Django based website. A few days ago when I […]
Select sort is a very simple algorithm but it’s very inefficient for large lists, but it is good when memory is an issue, since it is an in-place sorting algorithm. Meaning it is an algorithm that doesn’t need to use extra memory to store sorted from unsorted elements. The way it works is the following: […]
Insert sort is a fast algorithm for small lists. On some languages, insert sort is used to sort small arrays (small sometimes means less than 10) instead of more complex algorithms because it’s fast enough and doesn’t need much memory. To perform Insert-sort: take one element from the list on each iteration, starting from the […]
When programming in any language there are certain common errors that everyone makes as they mature and evolve their programming skills. In the case of PHP, I’ve seen a lot of ugly and complicated code around, since the language is very permissive. To have a good and healthy PHP code base so it won’t resemble […]
Web standards have always been about good markup, keeping things in order and cleaned up, etc. Using transitional or strict DTDs and validating our markup with different tools was a good practice encouraged by many. With HTML5 things seem to be going a bit backwards regarding structure and markup rules. Google’s HTML styleguide shows an […]
Recently I’ve been working on a project for a client that makes use of CSS3 columns in its layout design. The problem with CSS3 columns is that it’s not supported by any stable version of Internet Explorer so far (surprised? no? good!). At the time of this writing IE9 is the latest version. Luckily there’s […]
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