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February | 2013 | Michael DiBernardo

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Monthly Archives: February 2013. Review of “Service Design Patterns” by Robert Daigneau. I’ve recently been reading through Martin Fowler’s Signature Series. Of books, published through Addison-Wesley. I like curated collections like these because they save me the work of assembling high-level curricula on my own, and it sounds like Fowler actually read these books before recommending them, which is a definite plus. GetInvoiceList(customerID, startDate, endDate, phaseOfTheMoon). Similar to RPC API, excep...

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Python’s Optional Parameters and the Perfidy of the Human Spirit | Michael DiBernardo

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Python’s Optional Parameters and the Perfidy of the Human Spirit. I wanted to briefly comment on something I’ve observed myself doing that I consider to be an antipattern. Let’s say I’m knee-deep in that swampy mire known as Someone Else’s Code. I’m working on a search service that has this API:. Class SearchService(object): def search(self, query): # Mega complicated stuff follows. I need to change this method to be aware of the content-type of the media it returns. Ack search service.search. 1 and 2 bo...

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Conquering Network Resentment | Michael DiBernardo

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8220;One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.”. One commonly-discussed habit of successful people is having successful friends. Indeed, having a network of people who are all kicking ass is a very effective way of realizing that most limits are self-imposed and can be a consistent source of inspiration. I find this happens to me when:. In an ideal world, one would always be inspired and happy that one’s peers are doing so well....Detach ...

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November | 2012 | Michael DiBernardo

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Monthly Archives: November 2012. A few weeks ago — in the midst of PyCon Canada planning no less — my girlfriend complained about the Toronto Public Library’s policy of only emailing you. Your books are overdue. Having experienced this anguish firsthand before, I threw together a something to fix it. Where I try my best to seperate infrastructure from core domain logic. For the non-programmers in the audience, I hope you find this thing useful. But even if you don’t, I still had fun building it.

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Raising Money for your Regional Event – Part 1 | Michael DiBernardo

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Raising Money for your Regional Event – Part 1. Ever since we ran the first PyCon Canada. In 2012, I’ve had many conversations with would-be organizers about how to raise money for their own local events. In this series of posts, I’d like to discuss some of our approaches to attracting sponsors, as I feel like this is one of the biggest sources of trepidation for first-time organizers. What your event costs to run and what sponsors are willing to pay are only loosely correlated. That is, running an e...

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March | 2013 | Michael DiBernardo

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Monthly Archives: March 2013. 3 Mistakes I’ve Made When Starting Up (and will probably make again). I have the privilege of meeting a lot of highly effective people who are early in their career, and in the process of joining a new company or team. One of the most interesting parts of this experience is watching them make the same mistakes that I’ve made when I’ve been in the same sitation before. Here are the top three that seem to jump out at me the most often:. Refusing to set boundaries. This is anot...

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500 Lines or Less is available now. For the last two-and-a-half years, I’ve been editing and producing “500 Lines or Less”. The 4th volume in the Architecture of Open Source Applications. Series. I’m excited and relieved to announce that it is now generally available. I hope to be writing here (and elsewhere) a bit more now that this project is over. However, right now I’m just going to stare at the ‘buy’ page for a little while, and feel good about this. This entry was posted in Posts. July 12, 2016.

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500 Lines or Less is available now. For the last two-and-a-half years, I’ve been editing and producing “500 Lines or Less”. The 4th volume in the Architecture of Open Source Applications. Series. I’m excited and relieved to announce that it is now generally available. I hope to be writing here (and elsewhere) a bit more now that this project is over. However, right now I’m just going to stare at the ‘buy’ page for a little while, and feel good about this. This entry was posted in Posts. July 12, 2016.

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October | 2013 | Michael DiBernardo

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Monthly Archives: October 2013. Raising Money for your Regional Event – Part 1. Ever since we ran the first PyCon Canada. In 2012, I’ve had many conversations with would-be organizers about how to raise money for their own local events. In this series of posts, I’d like to discuss some of our approaches to attracting sponsors, as I feel like this is one of the biggest sources of trepidation for first-time organizers. What your event costs to run and what sponsors are willing to pay are only loosely corre...

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December | 2012 | Michael DiBernardo

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Monthly Archives: December 2012. Toronto Global Day of Coderetreat 2012. My first coderetreat experience was in 2009. I became involved in the Software Craftsmanship. Community through an effort called the Wandering Book. In which a little Moleskine journal was physically mailed from member to member so that we could write out our ideas about the current state of maturity in the field, and where we were headed in the future. (I often wonder what happened to that book.). By 2011, Coderetreat had become a ...