I was the official mentor for a Google Summer of Code student this year -- Martin van Loewis was "technical mentor" -- and I found it to be a disappointing experience. At the beginning, I felt guilty about not being more on the ball about pushing the student to do more work …
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I'm in the process of writing up a "when and how to test" screed, and I discovered this:
Karl Fogel's book, Producing Open Source Software, has precisely two keyword hits to testing in the ToC.
WTF?
--titus
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Posted by Ricardo Niederberger Cabral on 2007-08-22 at 17:00.
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So, I "organized" a Biology Birds of a Feather at SciPy 2007. This mainly consisted of posting about it and then trying to write stuff on a white board while keeping abreast of the conversation. About 15 people attended.
I didn't get everyone's name and in any case I don't …
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Thanks to a kind invitation by Fernando Perez, I was alerted to a BoF on Python/testing at SciPy. He made the mistake of introducing me as "the resident expert" so I felt even less inhibited than normal, which was hopefully not too problematic...
Gael Varoquaux took notes.
Basically, this …
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I wanted to write a comment on timing unittests, but that blog does not allow anonymous comments and there is no obvious place to e-mail the author.
Bummer.
(The short version of my comment is that getting the basic data out with something like nose is trivial; see my pinocchio …
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There was another mildly amusing incident during the recent SoCal Piggies meeting.
Michael Carter was showing us his incredibly neat Web 3.0 / HTTP PUSH software, orbited, by demoing an interactive IRC client on the Web. He signed onto the ruby-on-rails IRC channel and (this being a Python meeting) asked …
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