Pelican is a perfect blogging platform for programmers and computer geeks. My blog has been powered by Pelican for three years and it has been a pleasant experience. If you are looking forward to start a blog, or just thinking of changing a platform, why not give it a try?

Decorators are one of the most beautiful feature of Python programming language. They can make code easy-readable and maintainable. Nevertheless, their usage may seem tricky and mysterious in the beginning. This is a guide to the world of decorators. I hope that you will feel like a pro and have no questions left about them after exploring this article.

After getting hooked on coffee, I decided to stop drinking caffeinated drinks. This is a story of my detoxification.

I met a lot of Python beginners who complained about this keyword not implicitly available in class methods. After all, why pass self explicitly?

While reading the Binary trees chapter from Programming Interviews Exposed by John Mongan et al. I started thinking of alternative recursion examples which do not involve sorting, generating Fibonacci sequence, binary tree traversal and similar tasks. Lisp! Lisp is inseparable from recursion and Lisp interpreter would be a good case to demonstrate what recursion is and how it can be used efficiently. What would be a minimal simplified Lisp interpreter written in Python? Surprisingly, I managed to do it just in 6 lines of Python code! And this is not just because of Python being a wonderful language, but because of Lisp being such a beautiful and simple concept.

Ah, magnificent Finnish winter! First, it was jumping around zero (Celsius of course), so that people had to deal with slippery roads and pavement, then it dropped to -25, so that people put on layers of clothes. Then a snowstorm hit Finland, and it was above -10 again, with mountains of snow. There is an important part of the wardrobe that helps dealing with all these weather conditions: the shoes.

kidomi - is a simple yet powerful javascript templating library which converts JSON input into a certain DOMNode output. Kidomi was written after I have had a chance to try the dommy ClojureScript library in production.

How do you know if a Javascript variable is actually a string? There are several ways to answer this simple question.

Ladies and Gentlemen! I am proud to announce that Kaylee v0.3 has been finally released!

I have finally replaced my old Defender mouse with a brand-new, wireless blue laser-powered Microsoft Wireless Mouse 5000. Some of the reasons for picking this particular mouse are: symmetric, wireless, laser and GNU/Linux support :). A month of usage has passed and there is enough time to write a review with all tips'n'tricks which can help handling this mouse properly.