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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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Merging Pdf Pages

Posted on Monday 28 June 2010 by J. D. Bartlett

What on Earth? This post describes one method of merging the pages of two pdf documents. That is, creating an ouput file where page 1 of the output is the result of merging page 1 of each of the inputs, … Continue reading →

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Things I’ve Learnt: June 2010

Posted on Monday 21 June 2010 by J. D. Bartlett

Here’s my list of shareworthy things I’ve learnt recently, together with some links for further reading. If you’re writing a Mozilla Extensions (e.g. an extension for Firefox) and you want to launch a process on the local computer, you can … Continue reading →

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Something Beautiful

Posted on Monday 7 June 2010 by J. D. Bartlett

I was inspired recently to write a computer program which draws pretty images. Here are a few screenshots. Getting the Code I have uploaded the code to bit bucket. If you have mercurial installed, you can get it by typing: … Continue reading →

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HATE: Python-based Terminal Emulator

Posted on Monday 10 May 2010 by J. D. Bartlett

Introduction A while ago I came across a terminal emulator called HATE: the High Availability Terminal Emulator. The original idea was for it to be a terminal emulator that could survive X crashing, but what caught my eye was the … Continue reading →

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