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I love Python and my personal experience has shown that testers are about 4x more productive when using Python than when using Java. However, at work I am a tester on a Java application. I’ve been looking for a way to bridge that gap and allow me to write my tests in Python [...]

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In the lab today I was having problems with a slow network.  In tracing the cables from the computer I found they went into a hub, not a switch.  After recovering from shock I checked the card settings to see what duplex mode they were in.  It turns out that in addition to being connected [...]

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Dataflow programming is something new to me.  Lately I’ve been looking up articles and information about this programming paradigm.  In a sense I suppose that I am familiar with the concepts.  In Linux I use the pipe “|” a lot to pump data from one program to another.  Each program in the stage alters the [...]

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Crontab has got to be one of the greatest programs ever written. How in the world did we get along before being able to schedule the periodic execution of commands? Of course when I am setting up a cron job I seldom remember the order of the fields, so at the top of [...]

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