Scheme is a language with many implementations and with few libraries. In this episode I will discuss the current situation and I will give some useful indication to the Scheme beginner.

This is the first episode of a long running series of articles about Scheme. Currently I have published the first 11 episodes of it on Stacktrace. This episode is a revised translation of http://stacktrace.it/2008/02/le-avventure-di-un-pythonista-schemeland-1/

Just yesterday at work I had a good real-life use case for generic functions which deserved a blog post.

This final installment documents other subtle and somewhat surprising features of Python's super.

The series about the dark corners of the Python builtin super continues. In this installment I discuss an ugly design wart, unbound super objects.

super is perhaps the trickiest Python construct: this series aims to unveil its secrets

I describe my publication toolchain for Artima blog posts. I also argue that the absence of features in the Artima blogging platform is its best feature.

In the first part I have discussed the new features of metaclasses in Python 3.0, in particular the usage of the __prepare__ classmethod to intercept the class attributes *before* class creation. In this second part I will show an example of the things you can do with metaclasses, by implementing a clever record system.

This is the English translation of an article I wrote some time ago for Stacktrace: http://stacktrace.it/articoli/2008/01/metaclassi-python-3000/ For convenience, I have split it in two posts.

When starting a new blog it is customary to begin with a brief introduction to ourselves, with the reason why we are starting the blog, and with a note about the topics of the blog. Here it goes.