Category Archives: Project

Mocker for Python released!

After being bored for a long time for the lack of a better infrastructure for creating test doubles in Python, I decided to give it a go. I’m actually quite happy with what came out.. it took me about four … Continue reading

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Landscape and Storm go public

Finally, a couple of projects I’ve been working on in the last year and a half have been made public, which means that I have more freedom to talk about them openly. Landscape Landscape is a system we’ve created to … Continue reading

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python-dateutil 1.2 released

python-dateutil version 1.2 has just been released. It includes the following changes: Now tzfile will round timezones to full-minutes if necessary, since Python’s datetime doesn’t support sub-minute offsets (reported by Ilpo Nyyssönen). Removed bare string exceptions (reported and fixed by … Continue reading

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Smart 0.51 available

Smart 0.51 has been released today. It includes a few bug fixes and some minor updates. Shortly after the release, I’ve added a couple of new hooks on Smart’s trunk as well: cache-loaded, and cache-loaded-pre-link. These should enable people to … Continue reading

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Quickies

brother… My brother Diogo is in town! Good to see him after so much time. pycon… PyCon 2007 was fantastic. It was great to meet everyone there, and we had two awesome sprinting weeks around it. confluence… I’ve recently visited … Continue reading

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editmoin now talks to moin 1.6

editmoin 1.8 was just released, including support for moin 1.6, submitted by both David I. Lehn and Daniele Favara, and URL aliases, as suggested by Diogo Matsubara. One interesting thing I should mention is that Daniele has sent me a … Continue reading

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Smart upgrading algorithm

One of the known issues in I’ve been trying to address in Smart for a while is the freezing effect that happens when a very complex upgrading situation (such as a full distribution upgrade) results in a combinatory explosion due … Continue reading

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Released editmoin 1.5 and patcher 0.6

New versions of editmoin and patcher were just released. They fix a couple of issues found by Jan Anlauff and Olivier Thauvin, respectively.

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Comparing package versions in PostgreSQL

This weekend I’ve played a bit with PostgreSQL extensions written in C. A while ago I wrote a Python C extension for Smart to compare Debian package versions. Now I was trying to do something similar inside PostgreSQL, and thus … Continue reading

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Support for GPS TrackMaker file format on GPSBabel

Continuing my put-those-bits-out-of-your-hard-drive campaign, I’ve released a patched version of GPSBabel with support for input and output of waypoints, tracks and routes in the binary file format of GPS TrackMaker. The patch was written six months ago (sorry :-) ). … Continue reading

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