I just saw a commercial for a styling gel. It connected the use of styling gel to breaking free of Mao. Conclusion: I live in a silly country.
--titus
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Our PyCon tutorial was also accepted!
Grig and I will be reprising our Testing Tutorial at PyCon '07! This year I think we have a better idea of what people found useful, and in consequence we should be a bit better organized, too.
Our outline is here: http://us.pycon.org/TX2007/Tutorials
More anon.
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PyCon talk & Web panel accepted
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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Learning Python as a CS Professor
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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On Shortbus
This nice Guardian review of Shortbus has a few good quotes. (When reading these, bear in mind that the film shows a certain amount of explicit sexual activity.)
One quote, recounting a discussion with his (conservative Christian) parents about the film:
Have they watched Shortbus? 'No, they said, "Well, you …
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Perl programmers are from Mars, Python programmers are from Venus
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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Making in-process XML-RPC calls in Python
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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