Posted by Jeff May 31, 2006
Titus has written a nice intro to nose with examples. I emphatically agree:
the most important part of having unit tests is that they can be run quickly, easily, and without any thought
Thus, I was suprised not to see something like Nosy, to automagically run tests when code changes. To me, running tests by hand requires thought, and a context switch. Nosy keeps me in the flow.
Pinocchio is an extension to filter out long-running tests so tests may be run quickly. This leads me to believe his test suite was too big to run automatically.
(What is it about nose that inspires bad puns? This blog title, nosy, pinocchio…well, what do expect in a language named after comedy troupe 
python,unittesting
nose, nosy, python, unit testing
Posted by Jeff May 30, 2006
For those of us who are swigging olive oil daily, here’s some background on olive oil.
Olive oil is rich in Vitamin E, a fat-soluble antioxidant:
“It turns out that people who use olive oil regularly, especially in place of other fats, have much lower rates of heart disease, atherosclerosis, diabetes, colon cancer, and asthma.”
This is a pretty technical article. The most interesting and relevant bit concerns storage: it should be in a dark place, away from heat. Most olive oil is in glass bottles, so that means I shouldn’t store mine by the stove but in a closed cupboard
antioxidant, olive oil, shangrila, SLD, vitamin e
Posted by Jeff May 29, 2006
I’m finally making good on my promise to do more cooking. Part of this involves signing up the the Cooks Illustrated site, and having an EVDO connection to surf with the laptop.
Following the recipe from Cooks Illustrated - Great Cheap Steaks-Sept/2005, we got a pound of Top Sirloin steak, $5.95 a pound, and a couple pounds of Yukon Gold potatos for Buttermilk Mashed Potatoes.
The potatoes were fluffy and sweet, and the steak tasty and tender. We also whipped up a pan sauce with green onions, port and mustard. Three tablespoons of Grey Poupon was far too vinegary. I assume mustard is used for the sauce because it’s a good emulsifier…next time we should use a sweeter brown mustard.
This is an great value, and ready in a half hour- with leftover potatoes to nosh on for the rest of the week. This is a recipe to learn and get good at.
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Posted by Jeff May 20, 2006
Bruce Springsteen did a live concert for the BBC in support of his new Seeger album.
We got the CD/DVD a couple weekends ago, and enjoyed it on Mother’s Day.
The concert is up for a limited time, streaming in Real format at rtsp://rmv8.bbc.net.uk/radio2/r2_springsteen.ra. It sounded great streaming through the XBox.
To capture it, I downloaded an eval version of NetTransport. It downloaded the 15 Meg, hour concert in a mere 3 minutes.
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Posted by Jeff May 19, 2006
Interview with the book author - in MP3. The interview seems a little disjointed, but good content. The name “ShangriLa” and simplicity (tablespoon of oil) seem too simple and alluring, but it’s clear from the interview Roberts is a serious, thoughtful scientist building on previous research.
Kudos to MSNBC for posting MP3, not some annoying streaming DRM’d format.
sethroberts, shangrila, SLD
Posted by Jeff May 13, 2006
Listen to the full album.
I tried to buy this last weekend, but it wasn’t out yet. Here’s the story in Rolling Stone.
The most rousing song is Impeach the President (the Miserable Failure). Lyrics here.
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Posted by Jeff May 04, 2006
Using pyWinAuto to Control a Windows Application - this is an enhanced version of the animated GIF on the pyWinAuto Wiki.
Using Nosey for Python Testing - this is a movie of Nosy, which uses Nose to automatically run unit tests.
Ian makes a good editor
nose, nosy, python, pywinauto, screencast
Posted by Jeff May 03, 2006
Someone has done up the quotes as icons. My favorite-
colbert
Posted by Jeff May 03, 2006
My readership seems to be pretty well distributed..cool!
 | Netherlands | Almelo, Overijssel |
 | United States | Waltham, Massachusetts |
 | Germany | Koeln, Nordrhein-Westfalen |
 | Greece | Athens, Attiki |
 | Canada | Oakville, Ontario |
| United States | Astoria, New York |
 | France | Nanterre, Ile-de-France |
| United States | Laguna Beach, California |
| United States | Cambridge, Massachusetts |
| Germany | Rimpar, Bayern |
 | Italy | Campolattaro, Campania |
| Canada | Ottawa, Ontario |
| United States | Flushing, New York |
 | Czech Republic | Praha, Hlavni Mesto Praha |
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