Hard-coding configuration is bad. This is one of the things that newbie programmers learn quickly after they realize that have committed sensitive information to a public GitHub repository. And it happens so easily. Often, you are in the spur of the moment, wanting to test something locally, when you figure…
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Often, the seemingly simple things can make you spend hours chasing around tail. Like trying to connect to a MongoDB instance using KMongo.Basically, if you have checked out the KMongo quick start, setting up a client and fetching some data should be extremely easy:val client = KMongo.createClient() //get…
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Programming often involves creating configuration objects/dicts and passing them around to functions. Let's say we want to pass the following configuration dict to a function: config = { 'prop_a': 'foo', 'prop_b': 'bar' } Usually, a function that consumes this configuration dict would either expect a single parameter: def do_something(…
Often, I would work on a Python module and add changes to it live, which I would then want to test immediately. Piece of cake! Add the changes and execute the script again. Well, that’s certainly a way, but as modules get bigger, they tend to import other modules,…
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It is part of common sense to assume that the worthiest commit messages lie far from any extremes. Years ago, I often fell in the trap of hastily sending a commit after commit, annoyed by the fact that I have to add a summary to it (let alone a description)…