Baiju Muthukadan's Blog

Yesterday, I had a talk on Python at N S S College of Engineering, Palakkad (http://www.nssce.ac.in/) . The talk was arranged by the computer science student's free software community. There were 100+ students. I used the same slides which I prepared for my another talk in last September (http://baijum81.livejournal.com/14649.html) I took almost 1 and 1/2 hours.

My marriage is on next Sunday (12 November 2006). I will be away from net for few days :)

Recently Zope team has released zope.testing version 3.0 . For more info : http://cheeseshop.python.org/pypi/zope.testing To install : # easy_install zope.testing This is an independent testing framework which can be used outside Zope. One of the interesting feature is test layers. I think next Zope 3 release (3.4) will make use test layers heavily, so I started looking at this feature. The test layer API is here: http://svn.zope.org/zope.testing/trunk/src/zope/testing/testrunner-layers-api.txt?view=auto I will show you a simple example. First a 'hello.py': def hello(): return 'Hello' Then 'tests.py': import hello import unittest class FirstLayer(object): pass class TestHello(unittest.TestCase): layer = FirstLayer def test_hello(self): assert hello.hello() == 'Hello' def test_suite(): return unittest.TestSuite((unittest.makeSuite(TestHello))) The only thing to note here is the 'layer' attribute of 'TestHello'...

New Zope 3 wiki : http://zope3.zwiki.org/FrontPage This will be available from wiki.zope.org later.

I am a frequent visitor of Planet Python, also a subscriber. I also visit http://planet.ubuntu.com/ and http://planet.gnome.org/ regularly. I liked all kinds of posts. The policy of Ubuntu and GNOME planets are given at top of their pages. From planet.gnome.org: "Planet GNOME is a window into the world, work and lives of GNOME hackers and contributors." From planet.ubuntu.com: "Planet Ubuntu is a window into the world, work and lives of Ubuntu developers and contributors." Previously I have written an entry about this: http://baijum81.livejournal.com/11153.html I expect at least a sentence about the policy of Planet Python, so that I can adjust my feeds according to that. I think this will be useful for others too. IMHO, it should be something similar to the above mentioned policies.

I was reading Tarek's post on Python marketing: http://tarekziade.wordpress.com/2006/10/15/marketing-python-is-urgent-part-1-a-python-certification/ He suggests a Python certification program. Is this list created for discussion related to Python Advocacy?. http://mail.python.org/pipermail/advocacy/ But I cann't see any posts there (hmm.. I send one in last month, just to test)

Yesterday (Sunday) I went to Tomy's home and invited them for my marriage. Before that I spend about 2 hours with Nithya at 'Idavazhi'. Later I went to core for sending invitation to Kotas. I scanned letter and send to them. Today I will send it to Arun,Dideesh etc.