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As web programmers, we use a lot of strings to move data around the web. Often we’ll use a string to represent a date or an integer or a boolean. Basically "1" in instead of 1, or "April 1, 2009" rather than a proper ISO-8601 formatted Read More......( read more ) Read More...

At Cozi , we're writing our new web services in Python (a story for another day). I wrote up a few hard-won tips on using the Cheetah Template library at the Cozi Tech Blog . Read More...

Scott Bellware posed a question on the newly formed BDD list asking people's background. The list is concerned with Behavior-Driven Development but seems to have a heavy bias toward the .NET developer. This bias seems to bend the conversation towards tools, where tools mean a kind of language/platform specific technique. So, as a BDD user, what's my platform background? In the near past I've been pretty much 100% C# on the CLR. Lately I have some contemporary work in RoR/RSpec and Python of the Iron variety. My BDD world view on Sunday, March 9, 2008 I see specs as "class specifications" and behaviors are story/feature-to-code mappings that teeter on the line of business readability depending on the particular object collaboration...

I just learnt that on April 18th Python 2.5.1 was released, and that one day before IronPython 1.1 was also released, for (the very few of you) that don't know it, IronPython is an open source implementation of Python that runs natively on .NET Framework 2.0. The picture above (taken on Vista by SnagIt) shows an example written in IronPython of that childhood game: the sliding puzzle, in an interesting twist the image is downloaded dynamically from VirtualEarth. Python is popular in academia and for scientific research, so it's worth giving the language a look. Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it! Read More...

Trying out MSMQ from Python is a pain as it is from unmanaged code. But, by using python you get the benefits of using the System.Messaging namespace with the flexibility of dynamic code. Here is how you can do this. Start IronPython by ipy.exe -X:Ta bCompletion -X:ColorfulConsole -X:ExceptionDetail >>> import clr >>> clr.AddReference('System.Messaging') >>> from System.Messaging import * >>> queue = MessageQueue('.\\private$\\myqueue') >>> queue.Send('Hello from IronPython') Screenshot: There it is, your message in MSMQ. Note this code assumes that you already have a queue with that name. If you dont have it, then lets create it now. # First store the queue name is a string...

http://blogs.msdn.com/somasegar/archive/2006/07/25/678615.aspx If you are into Python for .NET, its shipping. Share this post: Email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! Read More...

is an object oriented dynamic language which has became popular of late (along with Ruby ). Beta 2 of Python 2.5 , the official implementation, has just been released. Further, beta 9 of IronPython , a .NET implementation, has also been released, on schedule with the plans of having a 1.0 release this summer. It seems like, more sooner than later, we'll have to learn a dynamic language so it's going to be a good idea to download IronPython and give it a try. Share this post: Email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! Read More...