Python is rich with powerful features and expressive syntax. One of my favorites is decorators. In the context of design patterns, decorators dynamically alter the functionality of a function, method or class without having to directly use subclasses. This is ideal when you need to extend the functionality of functions ...

At many instances when doing Ajax requests in Javascript, a serialize function comes in handy for creating a string in standard URL-encoded notation for the request parameters. The most widely used serialize function is that of jQuery which works great on forms. But what if the request is not based ...