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PyTPMOTW: py-amqplib

Posted on April 3, 2010 by bkjones

What’s This Module For? To interact with a queue broker implementing version 0.8 of the Advanced Message Queueing Protocol (AMQP) standard. Copies of various versions of the specification can be found here. At time of writing, 0.10 is the latest version of the spec, but it seems that many popular implementations used in production environments…

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PyTPMOTW: First Post!

Posted on March 26, 2010 by bkjones

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…

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Python Testing Beginner’s Guide: The Review

Posted on March 18, 2010March 18, 2010 by bkjones

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…

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Quick Loghetti Update

Posted on March 15, 2010 by bkjones

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…

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Programmers that… can’t program.

Posted on March 15, 2010March 16, 2010 by bkjones

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…

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Released django-taxonomy on github

Posted on February 14, 2010February 14, 2010 by bkjones

Hi all, I did a post several months ago about creating a generic taxonomy app for Django that was loosely coupled, unintrusive, and could evolve with an app that needed categories today, but then tags later, or labels later, or some other classification mechanism later. I wanted one app to just be generic enough to…

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Seeking Elegant Pythonic Solution

Posted on February 1, 2010 by bkjones

So, I have some code that queries a data source, and that data source sends me back an XML message. I have to parse the XML message so I can store information from it into a relational database. So, let’s say my XML response looks like this: <xml> <response> <results=2> <result> <fname>Brian</fname> <lname>Jones</lname> <gender>M</gender> <office_phone_ext>777</office_phone_ext>…

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What “Batteries Included” Means

Posted on January 22, 2010 by bkjones

When I first got into Python, I read lots of blog posts that mentioned that Python was “the batteries included language”, but those same posts were short on any explanation of what that really meant. A few years and lots of projects later, I think I’m now qualified to at least give a beginner a…

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Intro to Python 101 For Beginners

Posted on January 21, 2010January 22, 2010 by bkjones

If you code Python already, go somewhere else. I’m only talking to complete and total newbies to the language right now. I want to show them the stuff that I wished someone had put in one nice, neat blog post for easy consumption when I got started with the language. If that’s what you’re looking…

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If You Don’t Date Your Work, It Sucks.

Posted on January 18, 2010 by bkjones

I probably get more upset than is reasonable when I come across articles with no date on them. I scroll furiously for a few minutes, try to see if the date was put in some stupid place like the fine print written in almost-white-on-white at the bottom of the post surrounded by ads. Then I…

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