I should preface this entire post by noting that I haven’t used Erlang, just read about it, and I handle most concurrency using Python threads, a model for which I have no great affection (or hate). But I was reading two posts by Patrick Logan on Erlang and it …
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My Experience Writing a Build System
Lately there’s been some interest in build processes among various people — Vellum was announced a while back, Ben has been looking for a tool and looking at Fabric, and Kevin announced Paver. At the same time zc.buildout is starting to gain some users outside of the Zope world …
Me In Berlin & Amsterdam
I’m going on vacation in a couple weeks to Berlin and Amsterdam, flying to Berlin on August 12, leaving from Amsterdam on August 27, and transitioning between the two sometime in between. Things Emily and I should see or do? Care to meet up? On vacations my evenings tend …
Making a proxy with WSGI and lxml
You can use WSGI to make rewriting middleware; WebOb specifically makes it easy to write. And that’s cool, but it’s more satisfying to use your middleware right away without having to think about writing applications that might live behind the middleware.
There’s two libraries I’ll describe …
A Doctest Wishlist
Lately I’ve been doing most of my testing with doctest, primarily using stand-alone text files. I generally like it (otherwise I wouldn’t be using it), but it does make me frustrated with doctest sometimes. On my wishlist (roughly in order):
I wish output was always displayed, even when …
Happy Birthday PotteryBlog
A happy 4th Birthday Emily’s Blog!
On the RNC, Monica Bicking, Eryn Trimmer, and Protest
Saturday morning my sister, Monica Bicking, and her boyfriend, Eryn Trimmer, were arrested in Minneapolis. Monica was released on Sunday, but Eryn and others are still in custody, and the police will try to keep them detained as long as possible. update: the two of them and six others from …
Inverted Partials
I was talking with a coworker some time ago about his project, and he needed to update a piece of the page in-place when you go back to the page, and setting the page as uncacheable didn’t really work. Which probably makes sense; I think at one time browsers …
pyinstall: A New Hope
Note: pyinstall has been renamed to pip
Ever been frustrated with easy_install? Interested in an alternative? Then you should go over to my work blog and read pyinstall: A New Hope.
pyinstall pybundles
Update: pyinstall has been renamed to pip (per the suggestions in the comments to this post)
I added pybundles to pyinstall very shortly before I announced pyinstall. I hadn’t actually tried it out that much. Since then I’ve made three more minor releases of pyinstall, and I think …