I spent part of Saturday and Sunday working on Cartwheel, and then I spent part of Monday morning nailing down a bug that I thought I'd introduced. The process of tracking down and fixing this bug led me to give serious thanks for version control and automated tests, and at …
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This morning, I described my recent work-related activities to Tracy as "Whack-a-Mole". For those of you who aren't familiar with the Hasbro Whac-a-Mole game, it's a fun game for four year olds where you, err, hit moles on the head with a hammer as they pop up out of the …
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I've just finished the last rough draft of a short e-book, An Intro to Testing Web apps with twill and Selenium. The book has four sections:
- Introduction
- twill intro
- Selenium intro
- Testing an app with twill and Selenium
The "app" being tested in #4 is just the very simple poll …
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According to the silly language quiz, I'm Python!
"You are Python. You are slower than others, but easier to understand. You are a minimalist, who doesn't like clutter."
I don't like to think of myself as slow, but there you are -- that's what I must be. (Perhaps I have a …
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I spent the weekend hacking out a BLAST parsing package with pyparsing.
BLAST is a really common bioinformatics tool used to search large-ish sequence databases, and the NCBI BLAST program is probably the single most heavily used program in bioinformatics by a long shot. Unfortunately, the NCBI folk have a …
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I haven't seen anyone announce this, so I guess I should: there's now a Planet Python/Summer of Code site, http://soc.python.org/, hosted by yours truly.
Enjoy!
--titus
p.s. Regular blogging may resume shortly.
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