Jupyter Notebooks are The Business,So this is about one of those things that I knew existed, but I kind of thought 'Oh, this is just for scientists and data people to do science an...

Analyzing sugar in McDonald's menu's items,Recently I've found a data set in Kaggle which is composed with the nutrition facts of every item in McDonald's Menu (Dataset). I know fo...

Java may be verbose, but who cares?,This article originally appeared on IG's blog After more than 15 years of Java experience, I have tended to brush aside comments about Java's ve...

Save the Optional, stop using isPresent,Most functional programming languages offer a concept called Option or Maybe to deal with the presence or absence of a value, thus avoiding ...

Charm your SparkPost Recipient and Suppression Lists with Python,When developing code that sends email to your customers, it’s smart to try things out on a test list first. Using ...

Unwrapping Decorators, Part 2, Quick Recap Last post, I wrote about the basics of decorators in Python. For those of you that missed it, here are the highlights. Decorators are pla...

Compiling UI and resource files with PyQt, This article was originally published years ago at https://mplicka.cz/en/blog/compiling-ui-and-resource-files-with-pyqt and it's about Qt...

Sending Scheduled Mailings Simply with SparkPost,Do you need to send batches of emails, synchronised to go at a set time? Are you unsure whether to develop your own campaign manage...

Comparing Spock and JUnit,JUnit is considered the standard framework to test Java applications. I don't think anybody will challenge its position in the short term. In addition JUn...

Unwrapping Decorators, Part 1, Preface I promised in an earlier post to talk about Python decorators. A note for the smarty-pantses reading this: there is apparently something call...

Finding Null or Empty String Checks in Java,I have a lot of code like this: if( null == myString || ''.equals(myString)) doAThing(); Enter fullscreen mode Exit fullscreen mode The ...

In praise of Vavr's Option,Null is sometimes considered the billion dollar mistake. One could argue about this forever, but certainly, null has lead to a lot of awful code. Most fu...