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PyCon Australia 2012: Sunday

Posted on Monday 3 September 2012 by J. D. Bartlett

I wrote about the Saturday of PyCon Australia a few weeks ago. To round it off, here’s my highlights from the Sunday. Benno Rice (of bellowtheline fame) gave a brilliant talk on Behave, a cute behaviour driven development framework for … Continue reading →

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PyCon Australia 2012: Saturday

Posted on Sunday 19 August 2012 by J. D. Bartlett

I’m currently at PyCon Australia in Hobart. As I write this, Saturday’s programme is over, and it’s been a great conference so far. A few highlights: Mark Ramm’s Keynote: Don’t waste your life on projects that are going to fail … Continue reading →

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Crazy Idea: Chatting to Your Programming Language

Posted on Monday 14 May 2012 by J. D. Bartlett

What Is This? Today I’m writing about the embryo of a crazy idea I’ve had. It hasn’t yet passed the tests of usefulness and feasibility. I can’t yet clearly visualise what the implementation of the idea looks like. I’m writing … Continue reading →

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Romulus, My Window Manager

Posted on Monday 23 April 2012 by J. D. Bartlett

About a year ago, I wrote about making your own window manager in Python, and how to extend this to use Twisted as your window manager’s main loop. Around the time I wrote those articles, I also wrote a tiling … Continue reading →

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TODO Lists

Posted on Monday 8 November 2010 by J. D. Bartlett

Like most people, I have lots of things to get done. One piece of software which I’ve found useful recently has been GTD-Free, a task-list tool which helps you follow the process explained in the “Getting Things Done” book. I’ve … Continue reading →

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