Archive | March, 2006

30 March 2006 ~ 0 Comments

Unit testing with Stubble

For all those extreme programmers out there (e.g. Eric), Stubble is a “set of tools which can be used to simplify Python unit testing code by means of the responsible use of so-called stub classes”.
Unit tests (and other tests) are covered in Chapter 16 of the Apress Beginning Python book. I didn’t quite get there [...]

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29 March 2006 ~ 0 Comments

Python 2.4.3 (bugfix) released

The latest version of Python has been released to the masses. No new features, but a lot of bug squashing:
Python 2.4 is now in bugfix-only mode, no new features are being added. At least 50 bugs have been squashed since Python 2.4.2, including a number of bugs and potential bugs found by Coverity.
You can check [...]

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29 March 2006 ~ 1 Comment

An (unofficial) Python tutorial wiki

Earlier today Ed Singleton said that he thought a Python tutorial wiki would be a good idea:
This would be a perfect situation for a wiki. I think it would be a good experiment to have a wiki containing the documentation (separate from the main documentation and clearly marked experimental for the moment), and to [...]

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29 March 2006 ~ 0 Comments

PyWeather

PyWeather is a package that covers all of your meteorological needs. It includes conversion equations, console readers, and observation publishers. Now, this isn’t your typical “scrape data from Accuweather” type module. This is for actual first-hand weather monitoring and publishing, if you are in to that sort of thing.
You can grab the documentation as HTML [...]

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28 March 2006 ~ 135 Comments

HOWTO: IPCop-OpenVPN

I’m a huge fan of IPCop. It’s a great firewall distro that makes administration a snap using a slick web interface. My goal was to use IPCop and an easy-to-use VPN client to allow access to my LAN while away from home.
I ended up going with the ZERINA OpenVPN addon for IPCop and the OpenVPN [...]

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