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July 2005



A common muggle against he who shall be (or is) named Bill Gates

2005.07.25 Mon 10:28 P GMT-07
Argghh, Windows keeps coming back to bite me. (Or rather me being a "nerd" means I give free support to my friends, who sadly all run some variant of windows) While having dinner with some friends tonight (who happen to be another uninformed comput
Category: linux open source

Testing - an afterthought for opensource?

2005.07.20 Wed 11:04 P GMT-07
From my experience commercial testing of software consists of manual qa (grunt labor). Little is automated. I personally feel that even with a slight investment by developers to create unit tests, that effort would pay off later (especially in the
Category: linux open source
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ICFP followup

2005.07.19 Tue 10:54 P GMT-07
I guess I should followup to the ICFP programming competition which held the second and final phase a little over a week ago. The gist of the competition this year was that you implement a project in 3 days, then two weeks later the specs change and
Category: python
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Alex Martelli's Python Black Magic (July BayPiggies presentation)

2005.07.19 Tue 10:30 P GMT-07
Last week Alex presented to a pretty big crowd for a baypiggies meeting at google. His talk was originally entitled "Black Magic", but to avoid the bad connotation, he renamed it "Descriptors, Decorators and Metaclasses". A pdf version of his slide
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Preaching to the choir

2005.07.04 Mon 11:32 P GMT-07
I guess that's one of the benefits of the "long tail" of blogging. I can get on my soapbox and speak directly to my audience. I know what to say and how to tweak their buttons. Most of my family and friends stay pretty far away from my blog since
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