I listened recently to a couple (not so recent) episodes of the Startup Success Podcast where the topic was “crowdsourced” testing. In episode 20 Bob Walsh and Patrick Foley interviewed Dave Garr and Darrell Benatar, founders of UserTesting.com. In episode 22 they interviewed Matt Johnston from uTest. These are both interesting services that facilitate a [...]
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Git Resources
I have been learning to use Git. The following is a list of resources I found to be useful, interesting, or that I want to explore further as I get into Git:
Website: Git – Fast Version Control System – The home of Git. When you think source code management it’s only natural to picture a [...]
Keith Hill’s Effective PowerShell Series
I’ve been aware of PowerShell for some time now but I haven’t had the need to use it much. As one who has written many batch files over the years I want to be ready to take that sort of automation to the much higher level PowerShell makes possible.
Windows PowerShell MVP Keith Hill's Blog is [...]
COhPy Meeting – December 2009
Here is my link dump from last night’s meeting of the Central Ohio Python Users Group:
The scheduled presenter, Brian Costlow, didn’t make it. Something about work being more important than a Python meeting. Priorities?
To fill the void, Eric Floehr showed a weather-related web application he has been working on that is built with Django. The [...]
CbusPASS – November 2009
Last night I attended the CbusPASS (that’s the Columbus chapter of the Professional Association for SQL Server, aka the Columbus SQL Server Users Group) meeting. I’m not using SQL Server much these days so the take home value isn’t immediate for me. I’m interested in databases in general, I have used SQL Server in the [...]
Thoughts on TDD
I want to know what the buzz around Test-Driven Development is all about. The proponents make a good case for it. I’ve read about it a good bit but have never worked with anyone who practiced it. I also tend to be leery when I see people becoming religiously fanatical about anything, and some of [...]
Pair Networks Database Backup Automation
I have a couple WordPress blogs, this being one of them, hosted at Pair Networks. I also have another non-blog site that uses a MySQL database. I have been doing backups of the databases manually through Pair’s Account Control Center (ACC) web interface on a somewhat regular basis, but it was bugging me that I [...]
CONDG Meeting – August 2009
I enjoyed the presentation by Bill Sempf at this month’s Central Ohio .NET Developers Group even if it was a little disorganized. I think Mr. Sempf and I share a certain scatterbrain quality though his achievements point to an ability to focus deeply when needed. He’s like smarter more extroverted version of the Bill writing [...]
PyOhio 2009
I don’t make it to many of the Central Ohio Linux User Group meetings but I happened to be at the one where Catherine Devlin stopped in to announce an upcoming Python conference in Ohio, strangely enough, named “PyOhio.” That was in 2008 and, though it sounded interesting, I couldn’t make it to the conference. [...]
Python Imaging Library – Introduction
Sometimes you run across an item in an article or blog post that you don’t take much notice of at the time but it makes just enough of an impression that you recall its existence later, though you may forget the source. I recall reading about working with image files in Python but I don’t [...]