Jeff Atwood at Coding Horror asks Why Can’t Programmers Program? and passes along what is considered to be an absolute minimum test for programming competency:
Write a program that prints the numbers from 1 to 100. But for multiples of three print “Fizz” instead of the number and for the multiples of five print “Buzz”. For [...]
As you know, PyCon 2008 will be held in Chicago and the good folks of ChiPy were responsible for putting together a bid and making that happen. As it happens, they have the entire bid online:
The Chicago Python Users Group (ChiPy) is excited to present our bid for PyCon 2008. Chicago, as a metro area, [...]
PyCon 2007 ran from February 23-25, 2007 in Addison, Texas. My career doesn’t lend itself to attending Python conferences, and although it didn’t seem like it was worth taking vacation time and paying for plane tickets… much like last year, I think it would have been a really interesting conference to attend.
I couldn’t be [...]
Heh. Jacob Kaplan-Moss’ new CheeseRater site lets you rate Python packages as either fresh or moldy. It’s sort of like HotorNot for Python!
Right now Django and BeautifulSoup are rated the highest.
As a side note, apparently both CheeseRater and Django Snippets were announced by Jeff Croft on Sunday. Source code for both sites is available.
Django Snippets is “a site for users of the Django web framework to come together and share useful snippets of reusable code.”
It was down the other day, but it is back up and running… and it’s quite cool. Not a lot of snippets in the database at this point, but I’m sure that will change. [...]
