I am two weeks into my Amazon KDP non-fiction experiment. Guide to: Learning Python Decorators is currently #15 on the Python list as I write this, but was up at 5 during the week. It is aso #1 on the Python "Hot New Releases", which surprises me because #2 is …

The Utah Python group will be meeting on Thursday, Feb 9th at 7pm. Amji will be doing a short presentation on a memoization decorator and Eric will be giving a preview of his PyCon talk "Interfaces and Python". Cheers.

I am one week into the Amazon KDP non-fiction experiment with my books. Guide to: Learning Python Decorators is currently #12 on the Python list.

My sales have already outpaced any Barnes and Noble sales I've had. (Though I'm wondering how much reach Kobo would give me for the international …

Decorators are useful in Python for a variety of reasons. Some common uses are:

• caching
• logging
• timing
• authorization
• and lots more …

I mentioned in my recent SCALE10x talk that I would have a handout/cheatsheet for Python decorators. Here is a pdf version of the Decorator cheatsheet. It has templates …

tl;dr

I'm experimenting with KDP for niche technical programming books.

The Marathon Begins

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In an effort to remedy only reading to the younger kids, my oldest and I began reading Dickens' A Christmas Carol on the Kindle Fire about two weeks ago. It has been nice to read together and it is really the first book I've read on the Kindle. (I've read …

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Hannah, Student in eBooks for Elementary Students

I recently had the opportunity to teach a handful of elementary students about eBooks. Every year my daughter's school has what they call "Type 2" classes, where parents come in and teach about …

For the past few months life has been somewhat hectic. Real work has been busy as we have been pushing to release our next generation product. In the meantime, I have been writing a book outside of work. The book, Treading on Python, is a quick paced introduction to Python …

The static blog generator, Octopress, does not generate per category RSS feeds by default. I thought I would need a plugin to do this but it is quite easy and a plugin is overkill. All that you need to do is create a feed file with the appropriate filtering to …