Author Archives: Gustavo Niemeyer

Python has a GIL, and lots of complainers

Posted on 2010-07-09 by Gustavo Niemeyer

I’ve just read a post by Brett Cannon where, basically, he complains about complainers. If you don’t know who Brett is, you’re probably not a heavy Python user. Brett is a very important Python core developer which has been around … Continue reading →

Posted in Erlang, Go, Python | 31 Comments

Support for Launchpad and Bazaar in goinstall

Posted on 2010-07-03 by Gustavo Niemeyer

The patch submitted last weekend to support Launchpad and Bazaar in goinstall went in! This means that once the next release of Go is out (or you sync up with the tip code) you’ll be able to host modules for … Continue reading →

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Mocker 1.0 for Python released!

Posted on 2010-06-20 by Gustavo Niemeyer

After a few years in development, version 1.0 of Mocker is now available! Check out the changes since 0.10.1, the supported features, or go straight to the download page.

Posted in Project, Python, Test | 4 Comments

Integrating IRC with LDAP and two-way SMSing

Posted on 2010-06-19 by Gustavo Niemeyer

A bit of history I don’t know exactly why, but I’ve always enjoyed IRC bots. Perhaps it’s the fact that it emulates a person in an easy-to-program way, or maybe it’s about having a flexible and shared “command line” tool, … Continue reading →

Posted in Architecture, Cloud, Erlang, Mobile, Project, Python | 1 Comment

Released editmoin 1.15

Posted on 2010-06-19 by Gustavo Niemeyer

Version 1.15 of editmoin is now available. The following changes were made: Moin used to work with numerical IDs for identification, and editmoin was still based on this model. This release adds support for direct authentication as available in current … Continue reading →

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The forgotten art of error checking

Posted on 2010-06-17 by Gustavo Niemeyer

I was just rambling randomly yesterday, in the usual microblogging platforms, about how result checking seems to be ignored or done badly. The precise wording was: It’s really amazing how little attention error handling receives in most software development. Even … Continue reading →

Posted in Architecture, Go, Java, Lua, Perl, Python, Ruby, Snippet, Test | 10 Comments

Xpresser – Python library for GUI automation with image matching

Posted on 2010-05-18 by Gustavo Niemeyer

In a hurry? Go check it out! The context A while ago I found out about Sikuli, a very interesting project which allows people to script actions in GUIs based on screenshot excerpts. The idea is that you basically take … Continue reading →

Posted in Project, Python, Test | 10 Comments

Recovering a bootable EBS image

Posted on 2010-03-09 by Gustavo Niemeyer

Scott Moser has just announced this week that the new Ubuntu images which boot out of an EBS-based root filesystem in EC2, and thus will persist across reboots, are available for testing. As usual with something that just left the … Continue reading →

Posted in Article, Cloud | 1 Comment

Breaking into an Android password manager – Practice

Posted on 2009-12-05 by Gustavo Niemeyer

In the last post, we’ve seen some security issues which exist in the Android password manager gbaSafe version 1.1.0a, by analyzing the security description provided in its web site. As described there, even though the system depends on a “master … Continue reading →

Posted in Architecture, Mobile, Puzzle, Security | 5 Comments

Breaking into an Android password manager – Theory

Posted on 2009-12-01 by Gustavo Niemeyer

For some time now I’ve been wanting to research more deeply about the internals of Android. Until now, though, this was just a sentiment. Then, a couple of weeks ago I’ve finally managed to replace my iPhone for an Android … Continue reading →

Posted in Architecture, Java, Mobile, Puzzle, Security | 4 Comments