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A downside of Python dynamic nature is that REST API documentation won’t generate right out of your code, like Swagger does for Java.
The best you can get is http://pythonhosted.org/sphinxcontrib-httpdomain/, for which you need to duplicate all of your REST service method signatures in ReStructured text, a format I’m not a fan of.
One can get a pretty-formatted Twitter-Bootstrap-enabled doc for Eve REST framework. But I’m not using Eve, and one has to duplicate service methods API in a Cerberus schema description.

Ex-USSR has got a great school of engineers. Russia is the 3rd software outsourcing country (market) in the world.
Russian (let’s use the name, though I’m Ukrainian, for instance) engineers are very educated and think out of the box.

We got OOP gurus, Java buddhas, UI Picassos, Haskell Lamas, agile addicts and tech team management professionals. Even some good business analysts.

This leads them nowhere. Most of them don’t have a decent area to apply their superior skills.
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They do a pretty cool thing: force you to tell “the truth” — no matter how subjective this term is — as opposed to emasculated official style:

• what you really did (whatever it means to you);
• what opensource/published projects did you participate in;
• Top Stack questions you answered;
• your professional reading and (sic!) writing.

Here I am: http://careers.stackoverflow.com/victors
(have to complete it still)

Got 5 invites btw.
Actually, just testing a new LiveJournal crosspost plugin.

I wonder why this was not in JDK/Groovy Collections.

Just put together a Comparator for StackOverflow question – a Groovy Comparator that would sort class field names in the declaration order. Feel free to use:

class PropComparator implements Comparator {
    private Class clazz
    PropComparator(Class clazz) { this.clazz = clazz }

    int compare(Object o1, Object o2) {
        clazz.declaredFields.findIndexOf{it.name == o1} 
          - clazz.declaredFields.findIndexOf{it.name == o2}
    }
}

It hasn’t even been a ten years that DB2, one of the most, er, expensive DBMSes, got a feature needed by every other application – dataset paging.

Before, you had to use window functions rownumber() and fetch first 40 rows only. When used by Hibernate, this resulted ugliness like:

select * from ( 
  select inner2_.*, rownumber() over(order by order of inner2_) as rownumber_ 
  from ( 
    select  ...
    fetch first 40 rows only
    ) as inner2_
  ) as inner1_ 
where rownumber_ > 20 
order by rownumber_

Since this summer version – DB2 9.7.2 – you can just append LIMIT and OFFSET: More…