During my presentation on Developing Desktop Applications with Python at PyCon last month, one question in particular intrigued me: “How do you handle unit testing for user interfaces.” My answer, at the time, was the paragon of short and accurate: “I don’t.” But I’ve been thinking about it since then, and I [...]
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PyCon Wrap Up
Friday, March 25, 2005 – 5:42 pm
PyCon is over, and I head back to balmy Indiana tomorrow. Overall PyCon was once again an excellent conference. I will, however, remember this as “The Year of Stairs.” For the first time ever the conference was split between the 1st and 3rd floors of the Marvin Center at GWU, and as [...]
PyCon Day 3
Friday, March 25, 2005 – 5:10 pm
Today was the final day of PyCon. The day started with a keynote by Greg Stein on “Python at Google.” Before the keynote started we were sternly warned that Greg had been requested (by Google legal, I and others around me assumed) not to publish his slides, so we should take notes. [...]
PyCon Notes
Thursday, March 24, 2005 – 7:49 pm
I just noticed that Ted Leung is once again hosting PyCon SubEthaEdit notes. You can find the directory here.
In other social editting software news, there was an open space session on “SubEmacsEdit: Developing Social Editting for Emacs” yesterday (seriously, I can’t make this shit up). I wonder what the outcome was.
UPDATE: Here [...]
PyCon Day 2
Thursday, March 24, 2005 – 7:44 pm
Today was presentation day, which understandably occupied most of my thinking. So I’ll address that first. My desktop applications talk went well, and I had good questions. I think I’ll be doing some fine tuning for PyUK in April, but overall I think I hit the points that I wanted to. [...]
