Post archive for June 2009
I’m reneging… - 2009 June 30
So, in a previous post I said I’d likely chose git as my dvcs of choice. Well, it’s been almost 2 months and I find that while I’m very happy ...
Just in case you thought web security was easy… - 2009 June 25
Here’s a great article from Thomas Ptacek at Matasano entitled: Typing The Letters A-E-S Into Your Code? You’re Doing It Wrong! I’m not a web developer, but I certainly understand having ...
Ned Batchelder’s slides on code coverage… - 2009 June 18
This is one of the talks that was presented at PyCon 2009. Ned walks you through examining how much code your unit tests actually cover. As we become more “testing ...
Test run using Mach-based sempahores in Python on Mac OS X - 2009 June 13
Just did a quick hack to make Python use native Mach semaphores for the GIL instead of the mutex/condition variable pair, and got sizable speed up (13%) on David Beazley’s ...
David Beazley’s Slides from his ChiPy GIL Talk… - 2009 June 12
Got this via Twitter: http://www.dabeaz.com/python/GIL.pdf Man, there is some good stuff in there. Thanks David. While you’re there, check out PLY. See the talk up on blip.tv.
Another great article in Python Magazine… - 2009 June 12
Another great article appeared in the April issue of Python Magazine. This time it was written by Paul McGuire, author of pyparsing. The article is called Create your own Domain ...
Programming Clojure… - 2009 June 01
Just got my dead tree version of Programming Clojure by Stuart Halloway Friday, which reminded me I need to write a blog post about it. Clojure is a functional programming language ...