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If you work with other languages in addition to Python, it's easy to fall back into old habits. You should internalize the content from these two excellent presentations:

Raymond Hettinger's "Transforming Code into Beautiful, Idiomatic Python":

http://pyvideo.org/video/1780/transforming-code-into-beautif...

(pyvideo.org has a lot of other great talks and presentations.)

Ned Batchelder's "Loop Like A Native":

http://nedbatchelder.com/text/iter.html

Python Module of the Week is also an excellent resource:

http://pymotw.com/2/

The studies supporting it have apparently been somewhat hard to confirm, a lot of the source material used by McConnell seems to be from secondary sources and self-referential. [1] is a detailed blog post where the author tries to track down the original sources:

[1] http://blog.securemacprogramming.com/2012/09/an-apology-to-r...;

Jeff Atwood has lots of links here:

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2008/03/does-more-than-one-...

Apparently, that "independent" WordPress Foundation is still just Matt:

"From an ultimate decision-making point of view, the Foundation is mainly just me. [...] It’s worth noting that the Foundation was created purely to be a trademark and IP holding entity that Automattic could transfer its ownership of the WordPress trademark to. There are no “members.”" [0]

[0] http://wpkrauts.com/2013/leaders-and-the-greater-good/#comme...

Breivik is a fairly common last name. There are actually 8 men in Norway who have Anders as their first name, and Breivik as their last name.[1]

[1] http://www.ssb.no/navn/sok.cgi?lang=n&fornavn=anders&...

Looks very useful!

(Minor quirk: whenever I get to the bottom of the page, it automatically scrolls up again about ten lines after a second. Happens in both Safari and Chrome, running on OS X)

PHP: The Right Way [1] was well received here on HN [2] when it was announced a couple of months ago.

[1] http://www.phptherightway.com/

[2] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4212568

Just a quick question: What does appspydr offer compared to Cocoa Literature List[1], which also has search from a curated list of articles, plus chronological lists of articles by (broad, but well organized) categories?

[1] http://osx.hyperjeff.net/Reference/CocoaArticles

This experiment is apparently very compelling to us geeks, but according to Po Bronson, there are a number of problems with the marshmallow experiment (very few kids took the test as described in the Wikipedia links above, and grades were only tracked for a few of the students).

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2010/02/19/just-let-th...