Programming Leftovers
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Rlang ☛ rOpenSci News Digest, September 2024
Dear rOpenSci friends, it’s time for our monthly news roundup!
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Rlang ☛ The 100 Bushels Puzzle
Nina Zumel shares the following puzzle from the December 1908 issue of The Strand Magazine: 100 bushes of corn are distributed to 100 people such that every man receives 3 bushels, every woman 2 bushels, and every child 1/2 a bushel. How many men, women, and children are there?
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Marian Bouček ☛ How to create a web application without spending money
It all started innocently. One day I said to myself: since you love using Basecamp so much, why not learn their programming tools as well? I decided to learn Ruby on Rails framework, the very same tool that Basecampy and Hey are using for their own products. The tool is very pleasant to use and soon my entrepreneurial mind started wondering: hey, if you can create the web application for yourself, you could later on sell it to other people.
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Daniel Lemire ☛ It is never too later to write your own C/C++ command-line utilities
Recently, I received an email from an engineer at a prominent company who shared how he managed to save his employer tens of thousands of dollars annually by developing a custom command-line utility in C++.
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Qt ☛ Qt 6.7.3 Released
We have released Qt 6.7.3. As a patch release, Qt 6.7.3 does not introduce new features but contains more than 400 bug fixes, security updates, and other improvements to the top of the Qt 6.7.2 release. See more information about the most important changes and bug fixes from Qt 6.7.3 release note.
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Python
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Education
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Simon Willison ☛ Themes from DjangoCon US 2024
I just arrived home from a trip to Durham, North Carolina for DjangoCon US 2024. I’ve already written about my talk where I announced a new plugin system for Django; here are my notes on some of the other themes that resonated with me during the conference.
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Jeff Triplett ☛ 🎉 Announcing DjangoTV
After a year of hearing people complain about Django and Python YouTube videos not getting enough views, I decided to address the problem by building out a website to help organize and promote them.
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