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PyCon UK 2012 conference
I recently attended PyCon UK, the UK’s only national conference for the Python programming language. For the second year in a row the conference was held at the Techno Centre in Coventry, where this is...
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Developer Developer Developer North
On Saturday October 13th I attended the Developer Developer Developer North conference in Bradford. Developer Developer Developer (DDD) is a chain of conferences that are held in Reading, Bristol,...
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Installing GTK2 for Ruby on Mac OS X
I’m currently teaching myself Ruby from The Ruby Way. Chapter 12 is on “Graphical Interfaces for Ruby” and one of the libraries covered is GTK2. Unlike Tk, this is not included in the standard Ruby...
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Thank you GIST
This post is to say a huge thank you for the wonderful work done over the last three years by the GIST Foundation. GIST (Grassroots Innovation in Society and Technology) is a Sheffield organisation...
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Installing FX/Ruby on Mac OS X
I’m currently teaching myself Ruby and recently needed to install the FXRuby graphical toolkit. I was initially expecting this to be as simple as sudo gem install fxruby However running this command on...
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Running Python unittest with command-line arguments
I’ve recently come across a problem regarding the unittest module in Python when using command-line arguments. This problem occurs both with Python 2.7 and 3.3. Here is a simple example of a Python...
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Implicit Builder Conversion in C#
I recently attended a Leeds Sharp user group meeting on design patterns. Grant Crofton was presenting an example of using the builder pattern in tests and showed a neat trick that can be used in C#...
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Remote Desktop Connection to a Raspberry Pi
I’ve had a Raspberry Pi since May 2012, when the first wave arrived. It’s a great device, but requires a display if not only connected to by SSH over a network. The Raspberry Pi has a HDMI output port,...
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C# console application runner
An important part of a comprehensive automated test suite for an application is end-to-end tests. These are tests that interact with the application in the same way that the end user would do, i.e....
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Barcelona Ruby Conference 2013
On September 14th-15th I attended the Barcelona Ruby Conference 2013. This conference was organised by Codegram Technologies at the AXA Auditorium in the Illa Diagonal shopping centre in Barcelona and...
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