Just wrapping up a fantastic few days at PyCon Chicago 2009. I went with a group of about 10 guys from AGI, and we managed to have a little bit of fun in between some great mind-enriching talks.
Here are some notes I jotted down while at the conference. It’s a bit overwhelming, but [...]
We generally preach that you should not use real data in your unit tests. You should instead mock said data out in an effort to lesson potential side-effects, including degrading test performance and adversely affecting live data.
Sometimes, you’d like to test actual file handling in a unit test. If you do, you should [...]
<flame>
Javascript seems to gets left in the dust when we consider code quality. It’s been rigged, scattered, and smeared every which way from Sunday. Most sites of significant complexity have a severe amount of legacy, rotting code buried deep in a countless number of files. There is little separation of concerns in [...]
I’ve got some ideas that I need to find time to work on. In no particular order:
Port MockMe to the Dojo javascript framework
Utilize browser history sniffing to build a generalized user segmentation framework
Write a Ubiquity plugin for spreeder (to easily speed read a page in Firefox)
Port OWASP’s AntiSamy project to Python, to provide comprehensive [...]
