http://www.checkandshare.com/blog Tue, 11 Aug 2009 06:57:09 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en There has been some discussions lately about documentation in TG’s mailing list- or rather the lack of it. The Docudo project was kick-started in PyCon to address this problem. Docudo is a tool for writing and maintaining documentation for software projects. It relies on Subversion for versioning of documents and their properties. To ... http://www.checkandshare.com/blog/?p=42 Here is a screencast that goes through some of the stuff I’m planning for the next version of CatWalk. I talk about “list views” and some ideas inspired by Dabble - an amazing app. Check it out and tell me what you think. If you have some ideas, wishes or suggestions ... http://www.checkandshare.com/blog/?p=41 Just finished seeing PBS’s the elegant universe. Fantastic show that embarcs in an ambitious journey along the edge of modern fysics. A lot of mindblowing ideas presented in an very accesible way. Go see the tree hours long show for free at the nova website http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/elegant/program.html. http://www.checkandshare.com/blog/?p=40 This year LinuxForum was held at the Royal School of Architecture. It was kind of funny to held a presentation in a place I once spend 6 years as a student. I have more than once failed to stay awake during and endless slide/dias based lecture in one of those auditoriums. I hope ... http://www.checkandshare.com/blog/?p=39 Earlier today I was watching Seth Godin’s presentation at Google (http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6909078385965257294) - entertaining and enlightening btw. At the Q-A at the end (aprox. @ 41:05) I thought I could recognize Alex Martelli’s voice asking a question. There are thousands of people working at Google, I guess there must be other baritones there ... http://www.checkandshare.com/blog/?p=38 I have been working on my presentation for Linux Forum this week. Preparing it has been a lot of work. Phew… It’s an introductory talk. I’m going show some of the fancy new stuff we have, in the context of a sample application. The app is a revamped survey app, the one ... http://www.checkandshare.com/blog/?p=37 Grig Gheorghiu wrote some days ago about Useful tools for writing Selenium tests. Selenium is a fantastic tool for running tests within your webbrowser in a cross-platform and cross-browser way. But as Grig wrote in his post, hand writing test cases can be pretty tiresome. This situation will probably change once ... http://www.checkandshare.com/blog/?p=36 I have updated the TG journey illustration to clarify the type of CC license for it. The graph it’s under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 License, basically you can use it as you like as long as you remember to mention the author - that’s me =) You can get the ‘original’ ... http://www.checkandshare.com/blog/?p=35 A couple of days ago Stefane Fermigier posted a nice graph mapping the dependencies between different webframeworks and Python packages. I have a week spot for infographics, and Stefane’s post triggered the idea of doing an illustration of the journey of a http request through the TurboGears application stack. ... http://www.checkandshare.com/blog/?p=34 Mark Ramm invited me recently to contribute to his fine initiative of providing TurboGears related courses. This is something I will love to do and because I already had planned to spend time on an application to demo at LinuxForum, It occur to me that I could combine the two activities by ... http://www.checkandshare.com/blog/?p=33