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Whitehouse.gov is publicly using open source tools. See Boing Boing blog entry . Plus Huffington Post blog entry . Most importantly, read t...

Python's packages and modules are -- generally -- quite elegant. They're relatively easy to manage. The __init__.py file (to make ...

After all, programmers are all lazy and stupid. Got his complaint recently. "Developers on a fairly routine basis check in code into th...

I had a recent conversation with some folks who were desperate to "processize" everything. They were asking about Scrum Master ce...

Just stumbled across several blog postings on unit test naming. Essentially the TestCase will name the fixture. That's pretty easy ...

I find that some people spend way too much time doing "meta" programming. I prefer to use someone's framework rather than (a)...

I haven't written new C code since the turn of the millennium. Since then it's been almost all Java and Python. Along with Java an...