I've decided to try something different and will be holding Python "office hours" in Tog on Thursday evening. It's not really a secret but I'm not exactly advertising it either. I sent an email to my former students for Thursday's test run, and depending on how it goes I may …

I added a notice to my previous courses notes to indicate that they are now available under the CC-BY-NC license. I don't know if it'll be in any way useful -- as I'm well aware the courses could use a huge amount of improvement (working on it!) -- but it seems worth …

I'm facilitating-slash-attending a day-long workshop on Dexy in Tog next Saturday, March 26th. Dexy is an open-source tool for code documentation. The workshop will be presented and led by Dexy creator Ana Nelson and promises to be both interesting and a ton of fun :-) Ana plans to make it very …

I've been having a great time perusing through the PyCon 2011 video archives and watching some of the talks. Turns out most of them are 30 minutes long, which is a lovely amount of time -- a bus journey, a late afternoon break, etc, and exactly the length of my attention …

In preparation for an upgrade, I've been writing unit tests for a Django app with the help of a fantastic book -- Django 1.1 Testing and Debugging by Karen M. Tracey, there'll be a review coming up when I finish it.

I had some issues with the code to test …