Why operators are useful This is something I posted on python-ideas, but I think it's interesting to a wider audience. There's been a lot of discussion recently about an operator t...

Solid 2014 Two weeks ago, I had the chance to go to the inaugural O’Reilly Solid conference. Solid was billed as the Software / Hardware / Everywhere conference. The ...

Blog Moved *Please head to the new home of my blog. * (I've tried to keep all the URLs working. The formatting of some posts hasn't been converted too gracefully but ...

unittest.mock and mock 1.0 alpha 1 One of the results of the Python Language Summit at PyCon 2012 is that mock is now in the Python standard library. In Python 3.3 mock is available as unitt...

Jython Migrates to Mercurial The Jython's source code repository has moved from Subversion to Mercurial

JRuby on Rails on Amazon Elastic Beanstalk Amazon this week announced Elastic Beanstalk, a managed Apache Tomcat service for AWS. Naturally, I had to try JRuby on it. First, the bad: - AWSEB is ...

Jython 2.5.2 Beta 2 is Released

IronPython in Action I'm quite excited that IronPython in Action is published. I had the chance to write the foreword to this book and wanted to share it here as well. Forewor...