Entries Categorized as 'Computer Stuff'

Cool Python Tricks

Date December 3, 2009 by Isaac

This is a very good article with lots of cools things that Python can do. Python Tips, Tricks, and Hacks Link Summary http://www.siafoo.net/article/52

Waiting on the Wave

Date October 6, 2009 by Isaac

I’m not really into social media. I’ve never really found it all that useful. However, I must say that I see a serious use case for using Google Wave. The part that interests me is document collaboration. For example, one thing I’d use Wave for is requirements document collaboration. Currently, the requirements document is posted [...]

Sending Email with Python

Date July 28, 2009 by Isaac

I feel like a proud father. Yesterday I posted my first public Python recipe. Go check it out: http://code.activestate.com/recipes/576858/. Link Summary http://code.activestate.com/recipes/576858/

Long Sleeps In Python

Date July 15, 2009 by Isaac

There is a portion of my test infrastructure that requires long sleep periods for stability soak testing purposes. So far the longest stability test run was 9 days. Originally, I simply used the time.sleep() method from the Python library. However, and I attribute this to VMware, I found that extremely inaccurate for long sleep durations. [...]