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Alex Martelli

Alex Martelli
Senior Staff Engineer, Google

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Alex Martelli wrote “Python in a Nutshell” and co-edited “Python Cookbook”. He’s a PSF member, and won the 2002 Activators’ Choice Award and the 2006 Frank Willison Award for contributions to the Python community. He works as Senior Staff Engineer for Google. You can read some PDFs and watch some videos of his past presentations.

Sessions

2:30pm Thursday, 07/28/2011
API Design Anti-patterns
Programming
 Location: Portland 255
Tags: python, programming, design, api, errors
Alex Martelli (Google)
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(3.08, 26 ratings)
Designing interfaces so that other code can interact with ours (whether our code is a library, framework, application, website...) is a very common and clearly crucial activity, but fraught with dangers — stuff we all keep doing wrong time after time. This talks shows some common cases of API design errors encountered in the wild, with tips on how to avoid them when you design your next API. Read more.