Tag: Python

Zen of Python, Zen of Java


I have a "Zen of Python" T-shirt, which I bought at a PyCon conference. Black design and yellow lettering on red fabric. Its back displays the first seven lines of the Zen: Beautiful is better than ugly. Explicit is better than implicit. Simple is better than complex. Complex is better than complicated. Flat is better … Continue reading Zen of Python, Zen of Java →

Northwest Python Day 2010


Today, I'll liveblog and tweet from Northwest Python Day 2010. I'll update this article as the day progresses. ————— 1734: The day's over! 1717: More lightning talks. (I'm fading. Lots of great info and discussion today, it takes energy to stay focused!) A Google Maps - Twitter mashup. WebHelpers. IronPython. (Bleh.) 1647: Python vs. Ruby, … Continue reading Northwest Python Day 2010 →

Northwest Python Day


Yesterday was Northwest Python Day. All of the talks were great, and the day was immensely rewarding and enjoyable. Andrew introduced me to Andy McKay, with whom I've traded a bit of e-mail but never met. It's an oddity of today's world that you can do business, or strike up a friendship via a few e-mail exchanges, with … Continue reading Northwest Python Day →

Plone Conference 2008 reflections


My reflections on my first Plone conference... Things that were great The conference, in whole. The organizers did a great job, and we should all contribute to pay off their mortgages.  I'm sometimes a bit jaundiced about the overused word, "community," but the Plone/Zope community is aces. Things that weren't great The Ronald Reagan Building … Continue reading Plone Conference 2008 reflections →

Buildbot and py.test exit status


Buildbot is a great continuous integration tool, and PyTest, aka py.test, is a great unit testing tool. But there's an impedance mismatch between them. In Buildbot, a ShellCommand is deemed to have failed if it returns a non-zero exit status, and succeeded if it returns a zero exit status. Py.test always returns a zero status.  I … Continue reading Buildbot and py.test exit status →

Ah, Emacs


I've been using SPE as my Python editor for a couple of years.  It takes an IDE approach to the user window and UX model.  I liked it, and I even donated money to its support fund. But I've been an Emacs guy since back in the day.  I was never fond of Emacs' Windows integration, … Continue reading Ah, Emacs →

TrenchMice gets snuffed


We pulled the plug on TrenchMice yesterday.  It had plateaued in traffic, and wasn't able to break through to the next level of readership. New features or different marketing efforts resulted in only temporary traffic spikes, followed by a return to the plateau. The cost for the servers wouldn't be a large financial drain in and … Continue reading TrenchMice gets snuffed →

PyCon 2008 is here


Tomorrow through March 19, I'll be at PyCon 2008.  I'm looking forward to the tutorials, conference, and the Django sprint.  I'll blog about it if inspiration strikes.

CIO Python article


Martin Aspeli published an article in CIO magazine titled, "You Used Python to Write WHAT?" It's a good introduction for the non-technical manager to Python in the enterprise.  And the article's comments (so far) are good reading, too.  If you're looking to gently introduce the notion of Python or Django to a manager, you could … Continue reading CIO Python article →