Author Archives: J. D. Bartlett

That Test Framework

Posted on Monday 25 October 2010 by J. D. Bartlett

A few weeks ago I dreamt about a unit testing framework for Python.  Well, I’ve put together a proof-of-concept prototype.  What you can do with it: Set up tests and nested test suites Provide per-suite or per-test setup and teardown … Continue reading →

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Window Manager Woes

Posted on Monday 18 October 2010 by J. D. Bartlett

I’ve been playing around with different window managers for my Ubuntu installation.  At work in particular, I find it really useful having a tiling window manager because (a) it improves my efficiency because the keyboard shortcuts help to cut down … Continue reading →

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Python Unit Testing

Posted on Monday 11 October 2010 by J. D. Bartlett

I’ve had to write and maintain Python unit tests both for work and for Trosnoth.  I’ve played around with py.test and nose, and have done a tiny bit with trial (for twisted).  As a result I’ve come up with the … Continue reading →

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Behold, My Long Silence is Now Broken

Posted on Thursday 7 October 2010 by J. D. Bartlett

Due to the extended Blogetery.com outage my blogging was interrupted and now it’s taken me a while to get back into it.  A few things to note: Now that my blog’s been restored, the formatting of old articles is terrible.  … Continue reading →

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Talking Back to Mum

Posted on Monday 12 July 2010 by J. D. Bartlett

The Aim While doing some programming on the HATE terminal emulator, I came across an interesting idea: I wanted to be able to type a command into bash (from within HATE), that would leave the current bash session running, but … Continue reading →

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