I noticed this morning (and Grig just reminded me of it) that on http://www.planetpython.org/ I'm listed as Andrew Kuchling. Heh.
--titus
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MichiPUG meeting
While in Lansing, Michigan last week, I used the MichiPUG meeting as an excuse to visit Ann Arbor. (Ann Arbor is nice!) I presented twill, scotch, and wsgi_intercept. I also met Kevin Dangoor and Jason Pellerin, people that I'd previously only known online.
It was especially gratifying to be explicitly …
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Using Python as the "CS 1" programming language
I was out at Michigan State University discussing a faculty appointment last week, and we continued to talk about using Python for an introductory Computer Science class.
Two questions came up and I'm hoping to get an answer to both via the LazyWeb:
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corebio proceedeth
corebio, the joint effort by a junta of California bioinformaticians to replace BioPython with something we like better, is proceeding interestingly. So far we have discussed the following issues:
read more- what license? (BSD)
- what focus? (sequence manipulation & parsing)
- what about binary extensions? (focus on API, provide fast implementations where appropriate, but …
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Erlang madness
A bevy of Erlang links has been appearing on my radar screen. In part this is probably because I've become moderately addicted to Reddit, which is Erlang Cheerleading Central these days, but I'm also just plain interested in Erlang.
Dijkstra discusses CS education but I really disagree with him. He …
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A compendium of testing links.
read moreSelenium/FitNesse testing
Grig and the agile-testing list both sent me some interesting testing links today.
foo gui writes in Integrating Selenium IDE/RC and FitNesse about a neat trick where UI tests can be run via Selenium from FitNesse. (The subtitle is "Automated Web Testing Bliss" ;)
Jeremy Miller discusses …
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Off to Michigan again.
I'm going to be visiting Michigan for a conference (on Mackinaw Island) at the end of September, where I'll be talking about my thesis research. Following said conference, I'll be hanging out at Michigan State U. for the week of Oct 2-6; I'll be giving a talk on Agile Testing …
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