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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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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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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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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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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Does anyone have any experience with CloudStore, formerly known as KosmosFS? From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CloudStore:
CloudStore (KFS, previously Kosmosfs) is Kosmix's C++ implementation of Google File System. ... CloudStore supports incremental scalability, replication, checksumming for data integrity, client side fail-over and access from C++, Java and Python.
The …
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Since a few people have asked, here's a rough guide to the diversity discussion. No specifics allowed.
1. diversity list created to (among other things) ponder an official diversity statement for Python. List is closed-archive but open for general subscription.
2. Various diversity list discussions become heated. Some people (including …
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