Lonely Lion

dirtSimple.org: Stream-of-Consciousness Testing

A nice write up on why doctest makes writing tests and documents easy. I’ll be doing a quickie presentation on doctest at December’s chiPy meeting
. Ian will be doing a quickie on py.test. Hopefully someone else will take up the difficult task of explaining the straight up unittest library. I’ve tried to use it, but get bogged down with it. Doctest is just my speed.

Ian and Phillip both pointed to a PyCon presentation on Doctest that I’ll most likely ‘borrow’ for the meat of presentation.

Otter Project

A database for logging Old Time Radio Shows. They’ve assembled a pretty hefty list.

Customizing Emacs for CS 151

A good starter page (originally for a CS class) on customizing Emacs for Python. At the last chiPy meeting, a few people were talking about good IDE’s for Python, and it seemed like Emacs was tops. I had some trouble finding a quickie howto, this one was my favorite.

The November chiPy meeting took place last Thursday. Ian Bicking presented his SQLObject application. It was a good presentation, and helped to clear up a few questions I had about SQLObject. I presented my cat feeder to the group, despite the fact that there’s only about five lines of actual Python code involved with it.

All in all, the chiPy meetings have been going great.