Yay! Barcelona Python Meetups are here!

Back from the first Barcelona Python Meetup Group event. The event was good, with two talks:

• Maik Röder, based on the Eight tips to start with Python. Maik added an additional tip (use PyFlakes, a faster PyChecker) and asked the attendants for our own tips: IPython (a great shell that I should be using again) proved to have many fans! I mentioned my love for ctypes.
• Ramon Navarro Bosch, on Design Patterns in Python. Ramon recommended us Alex Martelli's Google TechTalk video on the topic.
  

If the event was good, the post-event (beers, croquetas and bravas) with Maik was great and I'm bringing home lots of food for thought. Most of the talk was about Funittest (Making it easy to go from use case to functional test). Maik uses daily a high level Test Driven Development flow:

• write the functional test, to get aligned with the user's needs/customer value,
  
• write unit test, that can be driven faster and focus in the approapiate level of abstraction
• write the code

My impression is that his ideas have lots of commonalities with Fit and Fitness, and the story-based-testing that they advocate. Maik said that Funnitest's theoretical foundation can be grasped in The Braidy Tester articles; I'm adding them to my to-read list...

Beyond functional testing, the programmer's flow, the business-technical gap, Barcelona, Sevilla, tele-working... an intriguing an promising idea: the I-told-you-that-this-was-a-wrong-decision year-end bonus.

Introducing... TiddlyWiki!

Dave Gifford created a very nice intro to TiddlyWiki. Going over the 20 first slides will take you less than a minute and will give you good reasons to read further and start using tiddlywiks.

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Circular del Ministerio del Amor

El Ministerio del Amor (Minimor en neolengua) informa:

Sin la nación, todo se derrumba. El acuerdo fundamental es sobre la nación de Oceanía. Sin él todo lo demás se derrumba.

No se es de Oceanía a tiempo parcial. Oceanía, además de un deber, es una pasión y un sentimiento hondo. No se es oceánico por horas o a tiempo parcial, aunque no siempre estemos pensando en Oceanía. Bien es verdad que lo solemos hacer menos de lo necesario. El ser oceánico lo impregna todo, así de poderosa es nuestra nación. Si llegase a estar en peligro, sería tu propia entidad individual la que estaría en riesgo.

Ostras, no, que no es de 1984; tanto acordarme estos días del Departamento de Registro del Ministerio de la Verdad me ha confundido.

¿De Sabino Arana? ¿De alguien de ERC? No, tampoco; es José María Aznar escribiéndole cartas a un joven español. Uf, agáchate, hijo, que viene la patria.