…leaving JavaScript as an afterthought, whereas my PHP, Bash and Python code are first-class citizens.
However, I've started building more complex, object-driven code. As the complexity grows, it's become rather obvious that it needs to be covered by proper unit tests. The question was how. So I started looking around for the best available JavaScript unit testing libraries and came across the following:
* QUnit
* Mocha
* Jasmine
* Sinon.JS …
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…features ... more on DjangoCon! Amjith Ramanujam , from our Python team, will be speaking at DjangoCon Europe. We are honored to be included in such a great set of community thought leaders. Amjith will present a tour of different profiling techniques available for Python applications. He'll cover specific modules in Python for doing function profiling and line level profiling. His presentation will show the shortcomings of such mechanisms in production and discuss …
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…found this handy guide to the Minecraft Pi Protocol . Finally, I found a Python library called mcpipy that implements the Minecraft Pi Protocol in Python.
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We are releasing an emergency release in response to a recently discovered remote code execution …
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Improvements to Python PIP
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There was also a lot of work put into generating omnibus builds of Chef for both SmartOS and Free BSD.
Here's a description of one of the projects:
We created Chef Stock to provide an extensible solution to inventory and expense management of infrastructure across disparate providers using chef nodes and attributes as our source of truth. We created a Django webui backed by a redis cache, which is populated from chef server. …
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After a period of being in beta, we're proud to announce the first stable release of the …
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…maintained one. It's written in C++ and is extensible through C++, Python and Perl.
Armed with ZNC, I've setup the following things:
I've configured ZNC to automatically set me away on IRC when my last client disconnects. My away message tells the user that my timezone is in Europe, and kindly refers him to the Phusion Passenger support page in case I don't respond quickly enough.
I've also setup my IRC client to display a notification whenever …
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Ruby, Python, PHP, Javascript and .NET
Ability to develop code for mobile applications (including Android)
Experience developing architecture of business analytic applications and systems
Experience providing ongoing application hosting and support of large businesses and start-up companies
Additional Desirable Software Competencies
Experience with C#, Silverlight, WPF, LINQ, ADO.NET, Entity Framework, Delphi, HTML5, jQuery, Ajax…