Doug Hellmann’s excellent PyMOTW series started 3 years ago yesterday, and I’ve loved every minute of it. His sheer commitment and dedication to his craft is to be commended; it’s not easy to find the discipline to sit down every single week and commit the time and research to carve bits in such a way…
Month: March 2010
Python Testing Beginner’s Guide: The Review
I try not to make a habit of reviewing technical books. I own more than my fair share of technical books, and I’ve been involved in publishing and even wrote a book myself. Most technical books, on the whole, are pretty bad. So, there’s Disclaimer 1: you know the mindset I’m starting with. I’m a…
Quick Loghetti Update
For the familiar and impatient: Loghetti has moved to github and has been updated. An official release hasn’t been made yet, but cloning the repository and installing argparse will result in perfectly usable code. More on the way. For the uninitiated, Loghetti is a command line log sifting/reporting tool written in Python to parse Apache…
Programmers that… can’t program.
So, I happened across this post about hiring programmers, which references two other posts about hiring programmers. There seems to be a demand for blog posts about hiring programmers, but that’s not why I’m writing this. I’m writing because there was this sort of nagging irony that I couldn’t help but stumble upon. In a…