This morning, I described my recent work-related activities to Tracy as "Whack-a-Mole". For those of you who aren't familiar with the Hasbro Whac-a-Mole game, it's a fun game for four year olds where you, err, hit moles on the head with a hammer as they pop up out of the …
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I've just finished the last rough draft of a short e-book, An Intro to Testing Web apps with twill and Selenium. The book has four sections:
- Introduction
- twill intro
- Selenium intro
- Testing an app with twill and Selenium
The "app" being tested in #4 is just the very simple poll …
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According to the silly language quiz, I'm Python!
"You are Python. You are slower than others, but easier to understand. You are a minimalist, who doesn't like clutter."
I don't like to think of myself as slow, but there you are -- that's what I must be. (Perhaps I have a …
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I spent the weekend hacking out a BLAST parsing package with pyparsing.
BLAST is a really common bioinformatics tool used to search large-ish sequence databases, and the NCBI BLAST program is probably the single most heavily used program in bioinformatics by a long shot. Unfortunately, the NCBI folk have a …
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I haven't seen anyone announce this, so I guess I should: there's now a Planet Python/Summer of Code site, http://soc.python.org/, hosted by yours truly.
Enjoy!
--titus
p.s. Regular blogging may resume shortly.
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I'm in the early throes of building tests into my Cartwheel project. Cartwheel was one of the two projects that inspired my Web testing project, twill, so naturally I'm happy to finally be putting twill to good use in my own projects. Naturally the transition from building tools for building …
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