6. What's with the goat?

   A new meme was born at PyCon 2010: The Testing Goat.

   Or, "Be Stubborn. Obey the Goat."

   The goat actually emerged from the Testing In Python Birds of a Feather session at PyCon, where Terry Peppers used slides full of goat in his introduction. This was apparently an overreaction to …

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7. Managing student expectations for open-source projects

   On the heels of my aggressive competence post, about (among other things) my failure to outline my expectations for students, I've started putting together a page to help manage student expectations for the pony-build project, which is participating in the Undergraduate Capstone Open-Source Projects (UCOSP) course this term.

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8. My 2nd attempt at teaching Web Development Concepts

   I just finished teaching Concepts in Database-Backed Web Development for the second time -- the post-mortem from the first course is here.

   In the course, the students implement a reasonably complete HTTP server from the socket library on up, and integrate CSS, JavaScript (jQuery), and a little bit of databases into …

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9. Some entertaining issues related to diversity

   a.k.a. "why we should care:"

   From the Comp Sci dept WIMS mentor:

   • "In terms of design teams and designing products, there's evidence from other industries that if you have just a male team, you could have a flawed product. Let's look at air bags, for example. Only 8 …

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10. Why use buildbots?

    I've recently turned my basilisk eye from Web testing and code coverage analysis to continuous integration, as you can see from my PyCon '10 talk and my UCOSP proposal, not to mention everyone wants a pony.

    There's some confusion about what "continuous integration" means (see Martin Fowler on CI) so …

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11. Exhibiting aggressive competence

    This last term I facilitated the participation of five MSU students in the Undergraduate Capstone Open Source Projects (UCOSP) program, in which students do distributed open source software development and receive home institution credit. UCOSP was managed out of U Toronto by Greg Wilson, and I was (and am) enthusiastic …

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12. A Tale of a Bug

    or, "those python-dev people are awesome."

    My experience with the Python bug tracker has been pretty sparse and largely limited to some of the eternaissues like "make HTMLParser deal with even more broken HTML" that never really get resolved because they're not very important and don't have a champion. So …

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