These two links are good starting points for getting in the habit of TDD with Python:
Giv Parvaneh: “Test-Driven Development – How Do I Start?”
O’Reilly Media: Jason Diamond: “Test-Driven Development in Python”
Tag Archives: Python
Python has a growing share
A working Python library for Google Reader unofficial API
The linked library handles authentication and offers working methods for a few of Google Reader’s methods: libgreader. Looks like a great start.
Programing Links March 7th, 2009
Mike Taylor on Kernighan and Plauger’s “The Elements of Programming Style” (gotta buy and read this)
Eli Bendersky: “The server-side Javascript meme”
PragPub–March 2010: Jason Huggins: “JavaScript: It’s Not Just for Browsers Any More”
“Algorithms are Thoughts, Chainsaws are Tools”, reviewing a short film by Stephen Ramsey on “Live Coding”. Read it and watch it.
Alex Clemesha: “Tools of the Modern Python Hacker: Virtualenv, Fabric and Pip”
Deseret Tech: “NoSQL v. SQL is the worst holy war ever.”
Dennis Forbes: “Getting Real about NoSQL and the SQL-Isn’t-Scalable Lie”
Jesse Legg: “Emacs for Python Programmers: Basics”
the official hudson weblog: “Hudson at PyCon”
The website of Lei Chen: “Setup Perfect Python Environment In Emacs”
Extra Cheese: “Python vs. Ruby: A Battle to The Death”
Martin Fowler: “ConversationalStories”
Code Monkeyism: “What Developers Need to Know About Agile”
Coding Horror: “Cultivate Teams, Not Ideas”
Geoff Sowrey: “What makes a Senior Developer?”
Related:
Netbeans IDE + Python virtualenv
teleported bits shares how.
Nice Django Forms tutorial
Usware Blog: “Doing things with Django forms”
A Writing Technical Documentation series by Jacob Kaplan-Moss
Jacob Kaplan-Moss helps maintain Django’s high quality documentation along with being one of the co-creators of the framework itself. His series on how to write great documentation is going to be a great help to me.
Two comparisons of different programming languages worth reading
Normally these kinds of pieces are worthless, but these two recently stood out to me:
Dennis M. Ritchie: Five Little Languages and How They Grew: Talk at HOPL* March 19, 2002
Michael Tsai: Perl vs. Python vs. Ruby – distinguished for the thoughtful replies in the discussion thread.
Two links on simple map visualizations with Python
Unit Testing Python Links
OnLamp.com: Jason Diamond: Test-Driven Development in Python
OnLamp.com: Jason Diamond: More Test-Driven Development in Python
AgileTesting: Python Unit Testing Part 1
AgileTesting: Python Unit Testing Part 2
StackOverflow: Python Doctest vs Unittest
Ian Bicking: Behavior Driven Programming