Noah and Grig have been CCing me on a conversation about JoelOnChecklists and Grig's post. Noah's writing a book chapter on this stuff, and asked for some tips.
Here are mine.
First, I have a bunch of individual twill scripts in a directory that are run every hour. These scripts …
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Tracy recently asked me if there were any good guidelines about how to write configuration files -- not coding-level guidelines, but guidelines on structure and content.
I was unable to come up with anything: my Google-fu failed me, and my DevonThink database was silent (although it did have some nice testing …
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As many people have doubtless read, PyCon '08 has announced the tutorial sessions. This year, Grig and I are doing a workshop-tutorial on testing rather than a teaching-tutorial; what this means is that our tutorial will focus on actually applying testing tools effectively to your source code.
We're billing this …
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Steve Yegge recently wrote a long article, "Code's Worst Enemy", about how "many lines of code" causes problems in projects.
That's obviously pretty silly. To see why, let's examine a little project I've recently started; conservatively, I estimate that it incorporates well over a million lines of code:
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Brett Cannon notes that GHOP is working out well, and muses about the future of the CPython test infrastructure (among other things). This is something I'm interested in as well (guess where all those testing tasks in GHOP came from? ;) and I've been confused, if not frustrated, by the apparent …
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Andrew Binstock hits the nail perfectly on the head with his post, Beautiful Code vs Readable Code.
--titus
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Matt Harrison's post, Gnome devs too lazy for python?, and the linked post by Thomas Vander Stichele strongly typed, are both really entertaining and illuminating.
I preserve them here for my own reference.
--titus
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