Ben Hoyt

Ben Hoyt has asked 27 questions and find answers to 25 problems.

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I’m a software engineer at Canonical. I’m married to the only Franci Hoyt in the world, and we have three lovely daughters. See my personal website benhoyt.com for more info.

Ben Hoyt questions

Large PostgreSQL table: better to add a column or create a new table to store metadata?
Python style: lowercase class names for "namespaces"?
What caching algorithm does NSURLCache use?
Which path module or class do Python folks use instead of os.path?
Why does iOS terminate my app even when I free lots of memory in response to memory warnings?
Starting multiple async/await functions at once and handling them separately
NSURLConnection on iOS doesn't try to cache objects larger than 50KB
Why does SCons VariantDir() not put output in the given directory?
Flow saying "Required module not found" for <Image> sources
Are Windows 8 XAML-based apps noticeably faster than HTML/CSS ones?

Ben Hoyt answers

Create os.DirEntry
Python convention for specifying compatible interpreter versions?
What is the purpose of passing "globals()" as web.py fvars?
Peewee ORM JSONField for MySQL
Why can't I divide a datetime.timedelta by a float?
web.py: how to get POST parameter and GET parameter?
How to fix "AssertionError: Value must be bytes" error in Python2.7 with Apache Kafka
Webpy: how to set http status code to 300
load parameters from a file in Python
UIScrollView disable scrolling while rotating on iPhone/iPad