So, it looks like I will be giving a talk on twill, scotch, and figleaf at PyCon! One of the reviewers said something very nice, albeit probably unjustified; to quote:
...twill is more or less Py web-developer 101 at this point, so a talk about it should be enlightening.
Hmm …
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Here's a (slightly edited) message from Bill Punch, a professor at MSU who is hoping to transition their Intro CS class over to Python. I would appreciate your thoughts and comments, both on his questions and my responses! (I do have permission to post it, in case you're wondering. ;)
(Just …
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Here's my dirty little secret: I read PlanetPerl.
I do so for a couple of reasons. First, there are a number of good programmers that post through it. Second, I'm easily amused by any discussion of Perl 6. And third, occasionally my mind gets boggled.
Take, for example, Ovid's post …
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I'm continuing to build a testing infrastructure for Cartwheel. One thing to test is the XML-RPC API for controlling the server remotely; this lets users upload sequences, create analyses, and download results programmatically.
Now, doing functional testing of an XML-RPC server is just as annoying as testing any Web app …
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I've been posting under Andrew Kuchling's name on planetpython.org for a while now, and today it appeared that all was fixed! Sadly, it turns out that my new posts are the result of me posting via my new blog, which is then syndicated to my old blog, which in …
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I spent the better part of today refitting Cartwheel for testing. Cartwheel is a bioinformatics framework that is used by a few hundred people; it's mostly a database-backed Web site, with a compute server queueing system tacked on.
Cartwheel is one of the two sites that got me interested in …
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Not only is MIT teaching Python, but it appears that MSU is going to try it out for their intro course. Hooray!
--titus
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