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Praise for github pull requests 23 Aug 2013 | 04:00 am
We're a group of a bit over 10 programmers at Nelen&Schuurmans. Coordination and quality and interaction is something you've got to watch carefully with a group of that size. I'd like to mention one ...
How to say ``[:]`` programmatically in Python 21 Aug 2013 | 04:00 am
I had a problem lately for how to pass in : programmatically into a function. I'd need either a specific element or all. Because of the program's structure I really wanted to keep pass it as an argume...
Handy tracebacks instead of uninformative segfaults 15 Aug 2013 | 04:00 am
Because we make geographical websites, we use a lot of C libraries (often via a Python wrapper). Pyproj/proj, gdal, that sort of stuff. And sometimes something goes wrong: Wow, that's not very inform...
Buildout 2 and setuptools 0.7/0.8 problems and some solutions 8 Jul 2013 | 04:00 am
Distribute (which was a well-maintained fork of setuptools) is now renamed back to setuptools. So setuptools 0.7 (and now 0.8) is out. And distribute is deprecated. But since distribute had to preten...
Lizard experience, first sessions 19 Jun 2013 | 04:00 am
This is the first set of three presentations on the annual Lizard day. (Lizard is the water information system I'm working on, so I volunteered to make English summaries of the talks.) Drinking water...
Lizard experience part two 19 Jun 2013 | 04:00 am
This is the second set of four presentations on the annual Lizard day. (Lizard is the water information system I'm working on, so I volunteered to make English summaries of the talks.) Digital delta ...
Lizard day workshop impressions 19 Jun 2013 | 04:00 am
This is an impression of three of the five live workshops on the annual Lizard day. Ground and water information in Lizard - Tijhuis The case: Schiphol, the main airport of the Netherlands. Since 19...
Water software and python 15 Jun 2013 | 04:00 am
Weird link I got from a colleague this evening: some Dutch ICT awards were awarded this week. The link is in Dutch, but trust me if I say that the two (to me) relevant awards were awarded to Python (a...
Non-trusted mercurial .hgrc on a Vagrant virtualbox 28 May 2013 | 04:00 am
I use Vagrant and virtualbox for developing inside ubuntu on OSX. I have a couple of mercurial (hg) checkouts and they were giving me grief: The .hg/hgrc file contains the remote repo URL, so pulling...
Lightning talks day 3 - Djangocon.eu 17 May 2013 | 04:00 am
html5lib Browsers are terribly forgiving. Python's parsers don't deal with everything, even valid html5 docs. html5lib was a problem. Google code and so and not python 3 compatible. The new html5lib...
