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1. Favourite quotes

   A selection of my favourite quotes I’ve come across recently…

   • • L1 cache - 3s grabbing a piece of paper
     • L2 cache - 14s picking a book from a shelf
     • System RAM - 4m walk down the hall
     • Hard drive seek - Like leaving the building to roam the earth for one year and ...

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2. Test driven development with Django

   I went to a workshop last night on TDD (Test Driven Development) using django and selenium, which was given by Harry Percival. It was hosted at skills matter exchange in London and there was free beer and pizza…which was an unexpected bonus!

   There must have been around 35 attendees ...

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3. Running a script on modification

   If I’m not working within the python REPL, and if what I’m doing is more than x number of lines long, it’s probably going to end up being a short script.

   I wanted a way visualise the changes immediately, while working/saving the script I was working ...

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4. Virtualenvwrapper

   If your using virtualenv then you should be using virtualenvwrapper, it's a great tool to make it really easy to use multiple virtualenv's and work with them painlessly.

   Here's the why

   Virtualenv is a nice way to separate out all your python libraries into their own individual ...

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5. git -a -m "initial commit"

   I’ve decided to set this blog up after hearing a talk given at OggCamp by LornaJane Mitchell entitled: careers in Open Source.

   It was refreshing to hear her enthusiasm for open source but also her frankness about what got her started and what has lead on from her doing ...

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