OK, this is one thing I love about Python -- in my entry on "five things I hate about Python" (which achieved "entry worth bashing" status on reddit; go provocative titles!), I complained about the difficulty in getting patches submitted.
AMK read this and posted about it to the python-dev mailing …
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Brian D. Foy claims that if you want to be an effective advocate for a language, you need to be able to answer the question, "What are five things you hate about it?"
Hmm, lessee. I actually have a tough time coming up with five things off the top of …
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Voidspace makes a mildly provocative post about how testing seems to be more emphasized in the Ruby community.
I'm not entirely sure I agree, but then again I'm firmly embedded in the Python testing community and I might have a slightly biased view ;).
What I am sure about is that …
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I have been asked to submit an outline for a three day course on Python, for ~20 scientists who already know basic Python. On fairly short notice, I came up with the following; what am I missing? (I plan to make the course materials publicly available, of course.)
(Note that …
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Of all the fever-induced hallucinatory things I said at PyCon '07, I'm proudest of this: "I don't do test-driven development; I do stupidity-driven testing. When I do something stupid, I write a test to make sure I don't do it again."
So true.
For readers that don't get it, my …
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Last year, Grig and I flew down to Dallas together to attend PyCon. I don't recall the exact problem, but for some reason the plane didn't go and we ended up flying through Houston and missing our original flight to Dallas. (We did have some unreasonably yummy BBQ in Houston …
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