Some interesting posts over in Planet Perl:
While I'm a raging Python fanatic (or at least a serious Python user :) I don't think this is anything to gloat about: Perl vs Python …
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PyCon review process
We're going through the PyCon '09 review process, and participating in the process has been pretty interesting. (I joined the Program Committee in large part because I was told to put up or shut up after I critiqued PyCon '08. Ahh, the open source world... where you're encouraged to go …
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The One True Testing Approach: There's No Such Thing
The ongoing debate about doctests (here, and links therein) seems to me to be somewhat silly.
doctests should be assessed by their utility to you and your project, in whatever role you happen to be using them. I personally find them to be very useful in API documentation, where they …
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What have I been up to?
As a new prof, I've been too busy to blog much. What am I doing?
Apart from all the normal academic crud (meeting with people, answering e-mail, doing paperwork, etc.) and parenting & home ownership stuff, I've been teaching my Intro to Database-Backed Web Programming course. This has been neither a …
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Integrating the academic & open source
This post on why academics should work to integrate their research ideas with open source software in order to actually push forward on the OSS side (and presumably vice versa) is really good. I think such things could be applied in software testing, too, where there's a gulf between how …
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Missive from a Swing State
I have a habit of occasionally sending odd e-mails to my postdoc lab mailing list, for reasons that I cannot adequately explain. Here's the latest one:
Dear Bronner-Fraser Lab, I would like to thank you all for your private letters of support; between the blizzards of Colorado, the floods of …
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Python is a ... little language?