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1. XO B4

   

   I recently received a Beta-4 XO laptop. I won’t describe the hardware on the whole, but probably a number of readers here have seen the B2 laptops so I thought I’d write up a quick description of the changes I’ve noticed. If you haven’t seen the …

2. Opening Python Classes

   So, I was reading through comments to despam my old posts before archiving them, and came upon this old reply to this old post of mine which was a reply to this much older post.

   I won’t reply to that post much, because it’s mostly… well, not useful …

3. Defaults & Inheritance

   I thought I’d note a way I try to make classes reasonably customizable without creating lots of classes, but letting other people create classes if they want.

   Here’s a common technique; I’m going to use a class from WSGIProxy as an example, because that’s where I …

4. Atom Publishing Protocol: Atompub

   Doing stuff with the Atom Publishing Protocol, I’ve noticed that it goes by two (shortened) names: APP and Atompub. I’d become used to calling it APP, but I’ve decided to make a conscious effort to call it Atompub from now on, and I encourage you all to …

5. Of Microformats and the Semantic Web

   I was talking a little with Daniel Krech (author of rdflib) about Semantic Web stuff and microformats and what they all mean. And he was saying that microformats were nice, because you could do something with them, but it would be nice to see that generalized.

   By “generalized” I think …

6. Reflection and Description Of Meaning

   After writing my last post I thought I might follow up with a bit of cognitive speculation. Since the first comment was exactly about the issue I was thinking about writing on, I might as well follow up quickly.

   Jeff Snell replied:

   You parse semantic markup in rich text all …

7. DictMixin

   Quite some time ago I gave a little presentation on DictMixin at ChiPy. If you haven’t used DictMixin before, it’s a class that implements all the derivative methods of dictionaries so you only have to implement the most minimal set: __getitem__, __setitem__, __delitem__, and keys. It’s a …

8. WebOb

   I’ve have it in my head to extract/rewrite parts of Paste lately. Tempita was one example.

   The request and response functions in Paste grew very organically. I wasn’t trying to create a framework, so I studiously avoided anything that might look like a request or response object …

9. The Shrinking Python Web Framework World

   When I was writing the summary of differences between WebOb and other request objects, to remind myself of web frameworks I might have forgotten I went to the WebFrameworks page on the Python wiki.

   Looking through that page I’m reminded how many framework options there have been. And I …

10. Doctest for Ruby

    Finally, someone wrote a version of doctest for Ruby.

    Recently I’ve been writing most of my tests using stand-alone doctest files. It’s a great way to do TDD — mostly because the cognitive load is so low. Also, I write my examples but don’t write my output, then …

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