CubicWeb: Towards building a JavaScript user interface to CubicWeb
This post is an introduction of a series of articles dealing with an on-going experiment on building a JavaScript user interface to CubicWeb, to ultimately replace the web component of the framework....
View ArticleShiningPanda: Support for pip 8 Hash-Checking Mode
Since version 8.0 (released a week ago), pip can check downloaded package archives against local hashes to protect against remote tampering. To verify a package against one or more hashes, add the...
View ArticlePeter Bengtsson: A quicksearch for Bugzilla using Autocompeter
Here's the final demo. What I did was, I used the Bugzilla REST APIs to download all bugs for a specific product. Then I bulk-uploaded then to Autocompeter.com and lastly built a simply web front-end....
View ArticleDavid Szotten: Watch out for Mock(spec)
Despite mocks being a bit of a smell, they are handy and I do find myself using them from time to time. As a cheap way to get some extra checks, I try to always make use of autospec=True in my...
View ArticlePython Software Foundation: Postscript to Warehouse Post!
Yesterday’s post described an important development project currently being undertaken by the PSF called Warehouse. This will redevelop and improve the Python Package Index, PyPI. I wanted to let you...
View ArticlePyTennessee: PyTN Profiles: Alissa Bonas (@mikeyteva) and The Python Software...
Speaker Profile: Alissa Bonas (@mikeyteva)Alissa Bonas is a software engineer and a team lead at Red Hat. She is a maintainer and contributor to several open source projects, has a great interest in...
View ArticlePyCharm: PyCharm 5.0.4 update released
PyCharm 5.0.4 has been uploaded and is now available from the download page.It also will be available soon as a patch update from within the IDE (from PyCharm 5.0.x only).The Release Notes lists all...
View ArticlePyTennessee: PyTN Profiles: Scott Burns (@scottsburns) and RethinkDB...
Speaker Profile: Scott Burns (@scottsburns)Scott lives in Nashville, TN with his wife and two children. He works at Stratasan as a software developer attempting to reduce complexity where possible. In...
View ArticleImport Python: Learn to program with minecraft - Book Review
Despite having build Education Software for a living I had no clue What Minecraft is ?. I am glad NoStarch asked me to review this book.What is Minecraft ?Minecraft is a sandbox video game. A game...
View ArticleKay Hayen: Nuitka Progress in 2015
For quite a bit, there have been no status posts, not for lack of news, but a lot has happened indeed. I just seem to post a lot more to the mailing list than I do here. Especially about unfinished...
View ArticleMartin Fitzpatrick: Create Simple GUI Applications with Python and Qt
Create Simple GUI Applications will show you how to use Python and Qt to do just that.This ebook was written to accompany the video tutorial course on Udemy, adding background and detail to the...
View ArticleImport Python: ImportPython Issue 59
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View ArticlePyTennessee: PyTN Profiles: Derik Pell and The Iron Yard (@TheIronYard)
Speaker Profile: Derik PellDerik got his Masters in Computer Science from The University of Illinois at Springfield where he was lucky enough to get to study data from many different angles. That work...
View ArticlePyTennessee: PyTN Profiles: Matt George (@binarydud) and Emma (@emmaemail)
Speaker Profile: Matt George (@binarydud)Matt is a software developer hailing from Erie, CO. He has been working with python for over 6 years and is currently a Software Developer for Rackspace.Matt...
View ArticleWeekly Python StackOverflow Report: (iv) stackoverflow python report
These are the ten most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.Between brackets: [question score / answers count]Build date: 2016-01-29 18:11:08 GMTWhy is max slower than sort in Python? -...
View ArticleInvesting using Python: Monte Carlo for binary options, all odds for the house
A quick remake of simple Monte Carlo for binaries as I was interested whether so called "81% payout" wasn't calculated all the risks for the house (dealer). So, let's say I have proven method...
View ArticleBangPypers: January 2016 Salt stack workshop report
We kickstarted this year's meetup with salt stack workshop at mavenhive technologies. There were 23 participants.Ram took the session. He started with what is devops, why we need dev ops and various...
View ArticleJohn Cook: General birthday problem
The birthday problem, sometimes called the birthday paradox, says that it’s more likely than you’d expect that two people in a group have the same birthday. Specifically, in a random sample of 23...
View ArticleBrian Okken: Test Case Design using Given-When-Then from BDD (PT010)
Designing your test methods using a simple structure such as given-when-then will help you:Communicate the purpose of your test more clearlyFocus your thinking while writing the testMake test writing...
View ArticleJorgen Schäfer: Elpy 1.11.0 released
I just released version 1.11.0 of Elpy, the Emacs Python Development Environment. This is a feature release.Elpy is an Emacs package to bring powerful Python editing to Emacs. It combines and...
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