Author Archives: kay

“Resolver Games” are alive!

Posted on 24. October 2009 by kay

Resolver One competition I admit I participated in the Resolver One competition in the first round in January as one of the losers. When Resolver Systems announced their challenge I got the impression they encouraged using their spreadsheet almost like … Continue reading →

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The future of EasyExtend

Posted on 3. October 2009 by kay

The state of EasyExtend Maybe an autumnal look on EasyExtend is justified. EE was and is an alien project which never resonated well with the Python community and its possible users. Actually up to now I don’t no anyone who … Continue reading →

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Bickering about unit testing

Posted on 25. September 2009 by kay

Doubts on the effectiveness of unit testing Unit testing has entered the programming mainstream with XUnit packages and derivations of them. They are available for all mainstream programming languages. It is not normal today shipping an OSS project without any … Continue reading →

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Choosers and ChooserMixins in C++ and Python

Posted on 12. September 2009 by kay

Chooser Objects From time to time I’m amazed to find a simple algorithm which seemed to be a low hanging fruit which was just overlooked. In this particular case it is about generating and utilizing test data in a both … Continue reading →

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Python – Hibernate – Jynx

Posted on 4. September 2009 by kay

Jynx 0.4 goes Hibernate In Jynx 0.4 JPA/Hibernate annotations are supported. Although this is still work in progress some of the more complex nested annotations were tested as well as Hibernate extension annotations which cannot be single-name imported along with … Continue reading →

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Jynx 0.3 – how to fix custom class loaders for use with Jython

Posted on 12. August 2009 by kay

Broken class loaders Jynx 0.2 contained an ugly workaround for a bug I couldn’t fix for quite a while. The bug can be described as follows: suppose you defined code of a Java class `A` and compiled it dynamically: A … Continue reading →

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Jynx 0.2 released

Posted on 27. July 2009 by kay

I’ve released Jynx 0.2. Jynx is a Jython package which utilizes dynamic Java compilation from Jython and improves on Java scripting. With Jynx 0.2 two major new features are implemented now. Annotation Extraction In the initial Jynx 0.1 release an … Continue reading →

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Four things I’d change in Python – and a little more

Posted on 25. July 2009 by kay

1. Import system Replace the flat module cache by a set of ModuleTree objects rooted in nodes living on the PYTHONPATH. Apply relative path semantics by default and treat absolute paths as special cases. Internal paths which are used in … Continue reading →

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Redesign of the code.py and codeop.py modules

Posted on 24. July 2009 by kay

Brett Cannon asks for modules of the stdlib to be redesigned. I find the idea rather bizarre to initiate a poll for this but maybe that’s just the future of programming where the quality of an implementation is judged by … Continue reading →

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A simple Spring challenge

Posted on 20. July 2009 by kay

I got some comments on my Biggus Dickus article in its own comments section as well as on programming.reddit. Many people defended Spring on grounds of its usability, whereas others identified the author of this lines as completely clueless. I … Continue reading →

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