I've now been back from PyCon for a week, and I've got some thoughts to share.

Scope

It was huge.

I usually try to memorize everyone's names, and I have some habits that help me with that. But there were so many people, I think that may have fallen apart …

In my career in the software field, I've had to teach myself about what quality software was. What the differences were between successful software projects, and unsuccessful ones. It's been a long and often frustrating journey, but I feel like I've come out of it with some principles that could …

In 2013, in the twilight of my "testing" career, I was able to attend Google Test Automation Conference for the third time. Once again, I was impressed by (and jealous of) many of the solutions presented. But for me at least, I'm not sure I'm the target audience anymore.

About …

I have a use-case where I'm using a dictionary as a basis for generating a configuration file, and many of the values in the file share pieces, such as URL bases or credentials. I will also be generating configuration files for several different instances from the same dictionary.

I wanted …

I've been using PyDev for many years, for Python and Jython development of all kinds. The more recent releases have made some big usability improvements. Specifically, autocompletion works in many more cases, and the built-in refactoring support is proving handy. Rough edges that have bugged me for years are being …

As suggested by Tarek, and done by so many others.

Well, it's been 3 months, and I've gotten a decent number of things written. It took much longer than I was expecting, but I learned a lot of things, and made some good contacts. But most excitingly, I got a job! Last week I accepted a position working for Arc90 …

I'm pleased to announce the 0.2 release of the Python Web Client. It now meets a bare minimum of functionality to be useful. Specifically, it provides a web UI to allow you to put together and submit HTTP requests, specifying request type, URL, parameters and headers.

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The release

I've polished a few rough edges, and I'm now (somewhat) proud to release Python Web Client 0.1. It's still lacking in features, but it's got docs and an easy way to start it, and what's more, its pieces work on non-Windows platforms. I've also handicapped it a …