For a while now, my rstgo module has been broken. It kind of still rendered go diagrams, but sometimes (usually), simple stones without annotations would just show up as big white or black rectangles. This was particularly evident in my own blog post, reST Go Diagrams Implemented.
That's fixed ...
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I just submitted a talk proposal to DjangoConEU. This is a conference being held in Warsaw. The talk is on making django tests faster and more effective. The goal is to give attendees a bag of simple, effective tricks for speeding up their test suites and, in the process, their ...
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I noticed playing my piano this morning that if you play the notes A, C#, D, F, using D as the tonic, and A as a sort of drone, you get a sound like Ethiopian music.
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One of the best ways to improve your development process is to pay attention to how the process is currently working, and where the points of pain are. This is a complex process that involves everything from discussing how developers feel about the process, to understanding when and how communication ...
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Just a quick note to say that my company, MetaMetrics just released django-hotrunner on BitBucket. django-hotrunner was written to scratch our development team's own itches around running django tests. It's a small module which provides a drop-in replacement for Django's test runner which adds some new functionality ...
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I was talking with my coworkers Jeff and Randy yesterday about some work Randy was doing implementing a finite state machine in django, and I was reminded of a pattern I've previously used to implement state machines using Python's dynamic typing to do it.
In more static languages ...
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Jayme and I have just started training with a new olympic weightlifting program. We're going to be lifting together in the mornings, and getting distance coaching from Nick Horton.
Here's what we're going to be up to:
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Today is Impromptu Reedie Haiku Day.
It all started when my fellow Reed College graduate, Mike, posted the following haiku to Facebook, on the subject of getting out of bed:
No no no no no No no no no no no no No no no no no
Inspired by his ...
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Happy 2012, everyone! After a long hiatus, Stylish Programming in Python is back. In Part 0 and Part 1, we built a program to convert kilograms to pounds, and then cleaned it up so that the code and the interface clearly communicate its functionality to both ...
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I just imported a bunch of old posts from my old Wordpress blog. Pelican has a pretty spiffy import facility that builds on pandoc to convert a wordpress export to the appropriate rst files to create pelican posts. Comments have been lost in the process, but I wanted to keep ...
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Last time, in Stylish Programming in Python, Part 0: Get It Done, we wrote a command line utility that takes a weight in pounds as input as prints out the same weight, converted to kilograms.
The code looks like this:
import sys
while 1:
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This is the first part of a tutorial on how to write well structured programs using python. It is intended for novice programmers who have some familiarity with python, and have perhaps written a couple of small scripts on their own. I will not be explaining what ...
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My big accomplishment at the gym on friday was that I missed a snatch at 58 kg. I went into the gym on Friday excited about training after my Crossfit Total, but still a little bit sore, so I wasn't expecting to set any new records. But I also ...
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I've been feeling a bit unmotivated at the gym lately. I feel like my squats are plateauing. My progress ...
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Saturday was the grand opening of Crossfit RTP, which is a new gym where a few of my friends will be coaching. I rode my bike down there (about 9 miles) to check out the space, and play with their equipment.
They have a cool space ...
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Yesterday was an exciting day for Oakwood Community. First, we got profiled in Dirty Durham which is an excellent blog which discusses community initiatives and local politics around town. We've been grateful for all the support an encouragement we've gotten from people around town.
More to the point ...
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With six people living in our house and only two cars, we have a lot of bikes at Oakwood Community. For the past few months, we've been stashing the bikes wherever we can. Jayme and I have a double-decker bike rack in the front ...
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This past week, my beloved and I were given the opportunity to train with Nick Horton and the folks at PDX Weightlifting. Nick was gracious enough to let us lift with them while we were in town, and even spent quite a bit of teaching us the lifts, and coaching ...
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Just had a minor annoyance this morning, trying to post a status with gwibber this morning. I was dual-posting to Twitter and Facebook. On Twitter, the post read, simply enough:
DC Tweed Ride 2010. I need to step up my game: http://readysetdc.com/2010/11/video-dc-tweed-ride-2010/
On Facebook, however ...
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Often, when designing interactive websites, you want to have elements that look like links, but submit POST requests, because they modify some data on your website. Maybe it's a delete link. Maybe it's a "Like" button. Today, I just stumbled across a dead easy way to do this ...
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It just came to my attention that psycopg2, the python driver for PostgreSQL database has a website again! For several months (years?) the site was unavailable, except for an plaintext rant about the author's ire toward Trac. Now it has several pages of nice-looking sphinx documentation. I haven't ...
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Need to fix code formatting
So what exactly is a python iterator, and how is that different from an iterable?
An iterable is an object that implements a method __iter__(), which, when called, returns an iterator. The __iter__() method can be called by the iter() function, and is also ...
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