January 2011

LAMP is Dead. Long Live Linux / Python!

by Mike Levin on January 31, 2011

Hey, pssst! Wanna see my new "short stack" dev platform? Download Levinux, and you can have a little Linux server running on your Mac, Windows or Linux desktop in a matter of minutes. In a few more minutes, you can have the full Python, vim & git dev stack installed and ready to play with, [...]

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The Python Nuances That Keep Code Clean

by Mike Levin on January 25, 2011

I am a casual programmer, having spent my entire professional career in jobs that don’t have programming in the job description. Truly, I started on BASIC on the TRS-80 in 1982, but the computer science flame was never sparked. Therefore, I went through life and career gravitating instead towards design and business, only programming to [...]

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Building Frameworks In The Cloud

by Mike Levin on January 14, 2011

Now that I have my new platform—Linux / Python / Mercurial / VIM, the idea is to drive interesting projects forward now that are valuable to my career, and apply to a broad set of general problems, and hopefully have never been done before. This desire to generalize tools is what leads programmers to create [...]

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Python Programming Language Advantages

by Mike Levin on January 12, 2011

NOTE: Download Levinux (~15MB) and run Python, vim and git on Linux Server with from your Mac, Windows or Linux desktop with a double-click (no install) in just a few minutes! Fall in love too. This article is not about Python vs. other languages, so much as it is about those peculiarities of Python that [...]

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