http://enterpriselamp.org Fri, 30 Jul 2010 05:37:08 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I like to keep my daily notes in a folder in the filesystem with filenames yyyymmdd.otl, using VIM Outliner. Here is a small DOS script to make a file for a day if it doesn't exist and then open it. Name it as diary.cmd and keep in your path. http://vsbabu.org/mt/archives/2010/07/30/quick_script_to_maintain_a_diary.html Usually, in PHP applications, I don't run acceptance tests. Lately, I have been thinking about how can I change this. I am a little experienced with others acceptance tests frameworks, for Python (Lettuce) and Ruby (Cucumber), but there is nothing like Lettuce and/or Cucumber in PHP world. So, what can ... http://www.franciscosouza.net/2010/07/high-level-acceptance-testing-in-your.html Some people waste a lot of time testing Django applications only with Selenium. No, I don't think that you should not use Selenium to test Django applications, I just wanna show that nobody needs to use Selenium for all webtests in Django.Selenium drives a browser, so you can have ... http://www.franciscosouza.net/2010/07/seleniumless-django-applications-using.html This post looks better on my blog This is the last in a four-part series, in which I demonstrate how to build a CSS parser using CodeTalker: tokenize parse translate test! To get the code for this: git clone git://github.com/jabapyth/css.git Test! No code is complete (and some would say it's broken) without a good amount of testing, and CodeTalker provides ... http://jaredforsyth.com/blog/2010/jul/29/codetalker-example-test/ "Premature Featurization" is my term for the tendency to implement a plethora of features before they've even been requested by real users just in case a user might want them.It's related to creeping featurism. Like premature optimization, it leads to difficult-to-maintain code bloat.Product managers and managers in general are ... http://jjinux.blogspot.com/2010/07/software-engineering-premature.html We are currently working on an app that uses a number of technologies, including PHP, Python, and MongoDB. Recently, a need arose to use sequential identifiers for users, similar to an auto_increment column in MySQL. If you've used MongoDB, you might be familiar with the default behavior of using a UUID ... http://shiflett.org/blog/2010/jul/auto-increment-with-mongodb This post looks better on my blog This is the third in a four-part series, in which I demonstrate how to build a CSS parser using CodeTalker: tokenize parse translate test! To get the code for this: git clone git://github.com/jabapyth/css.git Translation [for the impatient, here's the final code ]. Like everything else in CodeTalker, translation is mean to be straightforward; you ... http://jaredforsyth.com/blog/2010/jul/29/codetalker-example-translate/ There are cases when you would want to know the version of Django that is being used in your Python installation. To do that, go to your Python console and execute the following commands: >>> import django >>> django.VERSION In my machine, it showed the following: (1, 2, 1, 'final', 0) Related posts:Install SQLite ... http://blog.randell.ph/2010/07/30/how-to-find-django-version/ It's that time again. ;) Question five reads: 2520 is the smallest number that can be divided by each of the numbers from 1 to 10 without any remainder. What is the smallest positive number that is evenly divisible by all of the numbers from 1 to 20? And here are my solutions ... http://scrollingtext.org/project-euler-problem-5 This year, PyOhio (July 31 - August 3, Columbus, OH) includes two evenings and two full days of sprints, including a Python Core sprint. The core sprint is part of an integrated program (http://www.pyohio.org/Contribute) to recruit new core contributors at the conference, train them, and get them started working ... http://pythonsprints.com/2010/07/29/sprints-pyohio/