I get really frustrated with posts that claim your unit tests lie to you or 100% code coverage is fallacious or there are flaws in coverage measurement. These are sensationalist headlines that encourage bad behavior, by confusing new or inexperienced or argumentative or lazy developers: "well, we all know test …
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Over at OLPC News, Wayan Vota asks: "Do you get better FOSS code ... if the developers are paid or unpaid?"
Interesting question, especially as considered in light of the OLPC code base.
As of about a year ago, virtually everybody I talked to was shocked and stunned at the poor …
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Infoworld did a brief writeup of Snakebite; my only quibble is that MSU comes off as a more of a passive partner in the article than we actually are ;).
--titus
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As Jesse writes, Trent revealed the existence of Snakebite yesterday. Snakebite is an "open network" of various machines that Trent and others (myself included) are making available to the Python community for build and debug purposes. I'm coordinating the MSU component, which basically means that I run interference for Trent …
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A fellow prof here at MSU, Rich Enbody, whipped up the following cheat-sheet for new programmers transitioning from Python (CSE 231) to C++ (CSE 232). He welcomes comments. Here's the link:
http://web.cse.msu.edu/~cse231/python2Cpp.html
Paranthetically, he and his cohort in crime, Bill Punch, will be …
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A friend asks,
i'm going to be recoding <x> from scratch starting next week, in python. what codebase would you recommend as good to model after?
Any thoughts on a well-formed, reasonably sized (yet not huge), and simple Python code base?
There have to be some examples somewhere! I'd suggest …
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Here's a summary of the e-mail responses I got to my lazyweb query re code review and git.
A few people (Paul Nasrat and Jeff Balogh) pointed out that Review Board supports git. So I may try that.
Charles McCreary has had good experience with Rietveld, but I don't think …
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