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'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 …

After switching to pip a while back ("pip uninstall", oh yeah!) I thought it was time to tame virtualenv, as pip and virtualenv tend to be introduced as the ideal way to work with Python nowadays. I started poking at it properly today, here's where I am so far.

$ pip …

My last course to teach Python to beginners ended Monday last week and wow, am I behind in writing up the post-mortem :)

This time I taught the basics of programming with Python to a group of 6 adults, mostly PhD students either in political sciences or mechanical engineering. Nearly all …