PyPy, an alternative runtime for Python, uses a specially created JIT compiler to yield potentially massive speedups over CPython, the conventional Python runtime. But PyPy’s exemplary performance has ...

What was considered best practice yesterday does not hold true today and this is especially relevant when it comes to XML sitemaps, which are almost as old as SEO itself. The problem is, it’s ...

Many of today’s programmers—excuse me, software engineers—consider themselves “creatives.” Artists of a sort. They are given to ostentatious personal websites with cleverly hidden Easter eggs and ...

UTF-8, the byte-oriented encoding form of Unicode that is considered the web’s standard for character encoding, was designated the default charset of standard Java APIs, with the release of JDK 18 in ...

With SonarQube up and running, Jack Wallen shows you how to use it to scan your project code for issues. SonarQube is a great way to ensure your project’s code is free from bugs and other issues. I ...

Posting a chunk of XML in utf-8 encoding arrives garbled (iso-latin) at the target server. It should arrive as encoded. Running `nc -l 8888' will show the garbled Umlaut characters, whereas print or ...

This project provides a Python string codec for MySQL's latin1 encoding, and an accompanying iconv-like command line script for use in shell pipes. You can use this project in two ways: as a ...