Re: Code correctness, and testing strategies

2008-06-02 Thread Jacob Hallen
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], David [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Clients generally require *working* software. Unfortunately it is all too easy to ship something broken because then you can claim you completed the coding on time and any slippage gets lost in the next 5 years of maintenance.

Re: Code correctness, and testing strategies

2008-05-24 Thread Jacob Hallen
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], David [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I work in small increments, writing one test at a time, then some code, then another test, then some more code, etc. In fact, I take this to what many people might call an extreme. Thanks for the replies. I've read about the TDD

Re: Psyco alternative

2008-05-18 Thread Jacob Hallen
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], sturlamolden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mar 27, 4:44 pm, Jean-Paul Calderone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: PyPy is self-hosted and has been for some time (a year or so?). This is technically not correct. PyPy is hosted by RPython, which is not Python but a different

Re: ten small Python programs

2007-06-08 Thread Jacob Hallen
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Steve Howell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've always thought that the best way to introduce new programmers to Python is to show them small code examples. Something like this: http://www.lava.se/sam/ Jacob Hallén -- --

Re: PyPy 1.0: JIT compilers for free and more

2007-03-30 Thread Jacob Hallen
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Jarek Zgoda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Carl Friedrich Bolz napisa³(a): Welcome to the PyPy 1.0 release - a milestone integrating the results of four years of research, engineering, management and sprinting efforts, concluding the 28 months phase of EU co-funding!

Re: Python component model

2006-11-12 Thread Jacob Hallen
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Peter Wang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... functions at ever higher levels of abstraction, or to have a proliferation of nebulously-defined manager objects.) IMHO once you cross this chasm and are able to model your problem domain with live objects that go off and

Re: Don't use __slots__ (was Re: performance of dictionary lookup vs. object attributes)

2006-08-27 Thread Jacob Hallen
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Patrick Maupin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I didn't actually sense any dander on your part, so it was probably a bit unfortunate that I chose to respond to that particular message. I do (rightly or wrongly) sense some dander on Aahz's part, and this was the second or

Re: Twisted book opinions?

2006-02-18 Thread Jacob Hallen
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Andrew Gwozdziewycz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's really more of an example based tutorial book than cookbook. What it does do really well is 'networking programming essentials'. I found it quite a good book and managed to write a distributed ssh cron tool in an

Re: python coding contest

2006-01-01 Thread Jacob Hallen
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Simon Hengel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, After all, I'd really love to set up another contest with different measures and criteria. for future events i will take a close look at other possibilities for doing a ranking. At the moment the 22c3 and the contest

Re: where to download md5.py?

2005-11-04 Thread Jacob Hallen
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Fredrik Lundh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bell, Kevin wrote: I've been looking around, but haven't found a place to download the md5.py module. I need it to run the dupinator.py md5 is a standard Python module (written in C). it's been in Python since the early

Europython 2005 - last call

2005-06-21 Thread Jacob Hallen
Europython 2005 will start on Monday 27 June! If you haven't preregistered for Europython 2005, you still have a few hours to do so. You can register and pay by credit card until 21 June 18.00 CEST. Payment by SWIFT/IBAN is closed, since we would not receive your payment before the conference

Europython update

2005-06-15 Thread Jacob Hallen
The Europython schedule was publised on the Europython website (http://www.europython.org) today. With five parallel sessions for half of the conference and four for the rest, we think we have the largest selection of Python and Zope talks ever. Actually, we are more proud of the quality of the

Europython update

2005-06-15 Thread Jacob Hallen
The Europython schedule was publised on the Europython website (http://www.europython.org) today. With five parallel sessions for half of the conference and four for the rest, we think we have the largest selection of Python and Zope talks ever. Actually, we are more proud of the quality of the

Re: Optimise Europython competition

2005-05-23 Thread Jacob Hallen
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Carl Friedrich Bolz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jacob Hallen wrote: 2. A track should be continuous. Each track that is continuous gives you 10 points. What exactly do you mean by continuous track? Continuous means that from the time of the first talk

Optimise Europython competition

2005-05-15 Thread Jacob Hallen
A classic dilemma for conferences is that if you have many tracks, you may find that all of a sudden, a room is swamped, and there is a queue of people wanting to get in. Another problem is that you risk scheduling talks against each other that have a very large set of interested people in common.

Optimise Europython competition

2005-05-15 Thread Jacob Hallen
A classic dilemma for conferences is that if you have many tracks, you may find that all of a sudden, a room is swamped, and there is a queue of people wanting to get in. Another problem is that you risk scheduling talks against each other that have a very large set of interested people in common.

Europython update

2005-05-12 Thread Jacob Hallen
This is a news update about the Europython 2005 conference, to be held in Göteborg, Sweden 27-29 June - We have received a very nice array of talks this year, and we expect to be the biggest Python conference ever in terms of subjects covered. Many thanks to all the speakers who are putting

Europython update

2005-05-05 Thread Jacob Hallen
This is a news update about the Europython 2005 conference, to be held in Göteborg, Sweden 27-29 June - Due to some technical prolems with the registration website we have decided to extend the registration of talks until 8 May. We already have an impressive array of talks, but we do have

Europython 2005 registration open

2005-04-26 Thread Jacob Hallen
EuroPython is held -for the second time- in Göteborg, Sweden, during the week of June 27-29, 2005. Registration is open and now is your chance to submit a proposal (or more). Several topics are handled in parallel tracks at EuroPython2005, these include: Business, Education, Lightning talks,

Europython 2005 registration open

2005-04-26 Thread Jacob Hallen
EuroPython is held -for the second time- in Göteborg, Sweden, during the week of June 27-29, 2005. Registration is open and now is your chance to submit a proposal (or more). Several topics are handled in parallel tracks at EuroPython2005, these include: Business, Education, Lightning talks,

Europython 2005 is now accepting talk submissions

2005-04-04 Thread Jacob Hallen
Europython 2005 is now accepting talk submissions! Find out more at http://www.europython.org Just as last year, we have a Refereed Paper Track. Last day for proposing a refereed paper is 22 April 2005. For regular talks, we have the following tracks: Business Education Python Frameworks

Europython 2005 is now accepting talk submissions

2005-04-04 Thread Jacob Hallen
Europython 2005 is now accepting talk submissions! Find out more at http://www.europython.org Just as last year, we have a Refereed Paper Track. Last day for proposing a refereed paper is 22 April 2005. For regular talks, we have the following tracks: Business Education Python Frameworks