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Before I wrote my “Dear John” letter to PHP the other day, I had largely decided to move to Python as my primary tool. I had been on the fence for months about ch...

Last week, I wrote about my discontent with PHP and why I chose to give Python a shot at becoming my new tool of choice. Since then, Python and I have spent a lot of time t...

Many people were surprised by the simplicity of the math underlying the google PageRank algorithm, and the ease with which it seemed to be efficiently implementable.

Abstract Ruby on Rails ("Rails") is the dominant web programming framework for Ruby and, even outside the Ruby community, is considered the epitome of th...