Welcome to articles series which cover the principles of Hexagonal architecture, talks of Dependency Injection, and its usage in these to Python and Django application design.

After two years of developing a hobby project, I am proud to announce Concrete Settings - a new configuration management library for Python projects.

Concrete Settings was born as an effort to improve configuration handling in a huge decade-old Django application with exceedingly bloated settings.py. Remember that settings.py starts …

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.

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.

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!

Long ago, I learned the regular expressions in order to write a simple syntax highlighting engine. Regular expressions are not hard to master, but take time to practice. Kodos was the regex debugger of my choice, as it was written in Python. All these years Kodos was a "must have" tool on my development machines. Suddenly with the new version of Debian operating system, Kodos was not in the repositories anymore! Why? Kodos is based on QT3 widgets toolkit, which is a bit outdated nowadays (QT5 has been released recently) and was removed from Debian 7.0 ("Wheezy"). That is how I decided to write a small Python regex debugger in Python 3 and its de-facto standard Tkinter bindings to the Tk GUI toolkit.

Exploring XML elements versus attributes.