So, the survey results for Kotlin’s future features are in. Let’s talk about that. Continue Reading
Hello, dear readers, and welcome to my thoughts on the MVP (Model-View-Presenter) pattern, which I finally got around to learning. I had tried before, but everybody always explained it so abstractly that, even when compared to MVVM abstractly, I couldn’t tell what it was. But I recently got to see the pattern being implemented in some live-coding episodes I don’t really have a whole lot to share; I’m focusing on one mini anti-pattern within the typical implementation that I’d like to provide alternative ideas for.
General Thoughts on MVP
First, I will give you my overall thoughts on MVP. My first thought about it is, “Is this really any different than MVC?” And truly, MVP is pretty much what I had always thought of MVC to be. The problem wasn’t MVC, in my opinion, but what so many people had come to think MVC was. Having heard what Uncle Bob has said about MVC, it’s clear that there has been severe “evolution” to the community’s understanding of MVC, but the MVC I was taught in college is almost exactly the same thing as MVP, with all the differences being negligible compared to the differences between my understanding of MVC and so many others’ understanding. Continue Reading
Last week, I showed you my new implementation for instance-level properties in Python. This week, we’ll take another look at it by implementing a few Delegated Properties and helpers to make using them just a hair nicer.
Recreating Kotlin’s Built-In Delegates
For inspiration of what Delegated Properties to create, we’ll start by recreating the ones built into Kotlin, starting with Lazy. Continue Reading
A while back, I did a post on making instance-level properties in Python where the implementation of it required inheritance as well as messing with __getattribute__() and __setattr__(), which are a little dangerous to mess with. Then I had another idea last night (as of the time of writing this): Use normal descriptors to delegate to “Delegated Properties” (name taken from Kotlin, the original inspiration). These Delegated Properties can be designed very simply in a way that they only have to worry about the value on one instance, instead of figuring out how to store the value per instance. Continue Reading
Well, my Watch Later playlist on YouTube is extra full now! A bunch of videos from really big programming conferences have just dropped.
PyCon 2017: 144 Videos!
Google IO 2017: 158 Videos!
Now, obviously not all videos are going to interest everyone, but there’s something for just about any Python programmer in the PyCon list, and I only went through the Android videos for GoogleIO and I got 10 videos added.
With Google IO came a really cool announcement for Kotlin-Android developers, too: Kotlin is now getting first class support from Google for Android!
Programming Ideas With Jake 