I’ve obviously been quiet here on my personal blog – as everyone who reads regularly knows I’m neck-deep in a pretty exciting startup call Nasuni as well as doing other projects, like the PSF Sponsored sprints thing. That combined with twitter means my time for other additional long-form content is minimal. So here’s a small [...]
The Google Testing Blog has a good post up right now by James Whittaker called “There, but for the grace of testing, go I” – it’s a good read, and a pertinent one for any of you/us who feel strongly about quality. Even though I’ve spent more time then not on “the other side” of [...]
Back in May, Guido assigned me “single-use” BDFL powers when deciding on the state of PEP 3148. I had been working on and off with Brian since his original proposal to the stdlib-sig mailing list. Tonight, I “officially accepted” the PEP Brian’s put a lot of work into. You can check out the PEP itself, [...]
I’m not an active user myself (I’ve never had the need) but Numpy and Scipy are two of <b>the</b> key modules people cite as their reason not to use or port (or support) Python 3 (due to lack of porting). According to this announcement to Numpy-discuss, this will very quickly no longer be the case. [...]
I’ve put up the first official Call for Applications over on the Python Sprints blog – go check it out!
Otherwise known as “from psf import sprints”. Awhile ago, I started wondering if there was a way that the Python Software Foundation (the PSF) could reach out, and help encourage python development a little bit more than it currently does (it actually does a lot of stuff). I then spent a fair amount of time [...]
Over the past year or two, I’ve been in a pile of discussions surrounding attempting to increase the number of contributions to Python (as a project and ecosystem) – specifically around bug fixes/patch reviews, filing bugs, pointing out documentation issues, website content, etc. Many of these conversations seem relatively insular (people already involved talking about [...]
One of the posts I’ve been meaning to do is this one – a more extended version outlining what I spoke about in my five minute lightning talk I did at PyCon 2010 (more general thoughts on the conference later). Of course, meaning to post it – and actually getting a chance to are two [...]
We all know (well – unless you’ve under a rock) about Unladen-Swallow, the semi-Google-Sponsored optimization-focused branch of Python 2.x. Collin, Jeffrey and many others have been working tirelessly on porting the CPython interpreter over to LLVM, applying optimization patches, writing tests, etc all aimed at speeding up real-world operations and code since before last year’s [...]
I’m building (and will eventually post someplace) a collection of the cooler Python snippets I dredge up. I’m looking for snippets which are: Short New-to-Python accessible Showcase the best ideas of python – clean, simple, powerful. The goal is to build up a small pile of code snippets that programming newbies, or programmers from other [...]
