6. Twitter Ho!

   OK, I'm going to try out twitter for the first time, in order to see if it works out at PyCon for keeping track of what's going on and letting people know what I'm up to. I guess you have to e-mail me to get in touch with me, though …

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7. The Use and Abuse of Keyword Arguments in Python

   I'm 3/4 of the way through my first ground-up code review for pygr, and I want to gripe about something that pygr does a fair bit of: use Python's **kwargs. I don't want to escale it into a policy argument & policy decision for pygr, so I'm posting it here …

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8. Some Google Summer of Code Project Ideas

   'tis the season, and so it's time for me to post my list of accumulated project ideas. I'll transfer these over to the wiki tomorrow, after I track down some references. I'm willing to mentor any or many of these but I'd prefer to find someone to be the primary …

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9. titus!

   i asked two other friends of mine, [ ... ], for recommendations about model code and about their work environment. their feedback was extremely helpful and i thought you'd be interested to hear the opinions of other good programmers. i would also love to hear your thoughts on these (extracted and scattered) comments …

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10. Beginning Python Visualization, by Shai Vaingast

    I recently had the pleasure of being the technical reviewer for a new Apress offering, Beginning Python Visualization, by Shai Vaingast.

    To quote from the apress page,

    What you'll learn:

    • Write ten lines of code and present visual information instead of data soup.
    • Set up an open source environment ready …

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11. Re Syndication to advogato

    Hey cdfrey, ta0kira, I syndicate to advogato because I wanted to syndicate my posts to PlanetPython as well as advogato, at a time when advogato didn't have the tools to do that. Also, this way I can use my own damn editor, on my own damn laptop, to write the …

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12. People who don't have 100% code coverage are idiots

    My last post, Good code coverage: Necessity vs Sufficiency, about how you should maintain high code coverage with your automated tests, seems to have really struck a nerve in a small group of people -- I got some fantastic comments, with some great pointers. Michael Foord's comment, 'Too often "testing is …

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