After being on the new Python diversity mailing list for a bit, I've just unsubscribed. While there was an unpleasant personal incident that catalyzed my decision, I also don't think I'm a good fit for the style of discussion taking place. (YMMV ;)
That having been said, I want to give …
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I'm nominally involved in co-mentoring or cheerleading 5 Google Summer of Code projects this summer, and several of the students have the same problem: they send me one big e-mail (or post one big blog entry), every few weeks, asking for input.
This imposes a big energetic barrier to me …
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The last two weeks were pretty miserable, for some scientific/collaboration reasons as well as some personal reasons (visiting sick parents != fun). Two things that weren't miserable -- that were in fact quite fun -- were PyOhio and the Science 2.0 talks in Toronto.
PyOhio was a nice little community-based conference …
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This TDD anti-pattern catalogue is truly excellent!
--titus
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Posted by J Klassen on 2009-06-11 at 02:41.
hey, i used that whilst studing TDD for a CMPT 376 (tech writing) paper.
Posted by Paul Hildebrandt on 2009-06-12 at 23:06.
Great link, thanks!read more
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I'd like to find an MSU student to report semi-monthly on python-dev. The student would be responsible for monitoring the python-dev mailing list and active PEPs, summarizing substantive discussions in a public forum, and integrating feedback from the community. This would be a 1 credit CSE independent study course (CSE …
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Apparently the ipaddr module in Python 3.1 is disliked by some, and there was a reasonably robust discussion on python-dev about how it's wrong, wrong, wrong. Guido finally ruled: ixnay on the addr-pay.
This is pretty relevant given the twitstorm caused by Zed Shaw's ludicrously self-confident rants about how …
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