I spent a fairly satisfying two days setting up unit and functional tests for figleaf, my code coverage package. I implemented the tests using a technique that I gather is called vertical slicing -- I just called it "starting a new phase of a project" before ;). The idea is that you …
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Every few days, a new hysterical screed against formal education, undergrad studies, or grad studies comes across my screen. As a result I've been mulling over the hot-button issue of academic study, both undergrad and grad, for the last few months. Why are there so many loud people decrying the …
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If you use sys.settrace to set a tracing function, and that function prints to sys.stdout`, then don't ever trash ``sys.stdout, even briefly. You will raise an invisible exception and your trace function will be removed.
(I don't know precisely what is supposed to happen when a trace …
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I haven't seen Kyle Wilson's article, Software is Hard, making the rounds yet... worth reading!
--titus
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Posted by Noah Gift on 2007-10-03 at 08:15.
Great article, at least it is a comfort that some people admit it is hard and that "software is hard" is becoming more …read more
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There's been lots of discussion recently about the global interpreter lock, and how evil it is. (I personally don't think it's evil. More on that some day when I write code again, if ever.)
Then I read this article, on parrot and Threading Building Blocks, and somethign clicked. I quote …
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Rob Campbell found me by google, and pointed me towards his blog, Science and Software. Funny, well written, and very apropos! Why isn't there more software, commercial or otherwise, for labs?
There has been a lot of local interest (i.e. two or three people have discussed it at various …
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After our long software licensing discussion on the biology-in-python list, I realized that I wanted something different in a license for scientific software.
Specifically, I would like to attach the following clause to either a BSD or L/GPL style license:
Publications relying on derivative works of this software must …read more
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