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'python' Category

• Mar

  13

  2008

  A web 2.0 app for uploading and running remote Python code snippets?

  I know I read about this on reddit within the last week or so… But I just can’t find it! My Google-fu is failing me! Grrrrr. There was a general upload text area form where you copy in your code snippet. You then select the language from a drop down, and click submit. In the commentary [...]

  posted in python by Jason Huggins

• Jan

  29

  2008

  This is why I love JavaScript and Python, but not Java

  “Exploratory programming is the fun end of programming, and we hope that will be the guiding principle of the Arc community.” (arclanguage.org)

  Amen! (And when I do have to work with code on the JVM, it’s via Rhino or Jython.) I don’t know how much I’ll use Arc in the future, but I already like its [...]

  posted in javascript, python by Jason Huggins

• Aug

  10

  2006

  A new litmus test for evaluating Python web frameworks — What’s your security policy?

  With the almost daily announcement of new Python-based web frameworks, there needs to be a way to filter the contenders from the pretenders. I’ve been mulling over the idea of compiling a checklist for evaluating new frameworks. The checklist could also be used by new would-be Python framework creators as a gut check for the [...]

  posted in django, python, rails by Jason Huggins

• Jul

  07

  2006

  See Spot Test Django

  Here is some “science fiction” I’m working on at the moment for testing the Django admin app with Selenium. I call it science fiction because the I’m still working on the code that will actually read this and execute it correctly in the browser.

  I imagine the source document will be HTML with a scent [...]

  posted in django, python, selenium by Jason Huggins

• Jul

  03

  2006

  People who program in Java, Python, or Perl should NOT read this!

  Really, you’ve been warned!

  posted in python by Jason Huggins