Archives week 42 of 2011
Oct. 17, 2011 - Oct. 23, 2011
Dreaming of deterministic profilers future...
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- High resolution, accurate, captured data (obviously)
- Trace every line executed (yes, every line)
- Trace every call operation, i.e. CALL #32 of function #45 took 0.0003s and have a record of CALL #32 which details what *it* called, its timing, ...
PyCon recordings seem to suffer from link-rot...
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Searching for links to some of my presentations from PyCon (particularly the audio/video). Lots of links to no-longer-existing pages at PyCon.org. There's an unofficial mirror that at least covers back to 2009, but most of the older stuff seems to have black-holed.
New release of globalsub is out
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Globalsub is a mechanism to allow you easily replace an object throughout your interpreter. This is normally done to make it easier to test. You can stub out objects which have side effects for most of your tests and just test those functions in carefully isolated environments. It comes from the Mocker codebase originally, but ...
KDE seems to have stabilized... I suppose I should break it
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After the hiccups of a few days ago where suspend/resume didn't work for a day or so, my laptop seems to have settled into a happy place. Suspend/resume is now working, and I haven't had any hard-hangs where the machine becomes unresponsive (which was why I upgraded to the backported KDE 4.7.1). Which is to ...
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Mike C. Fletcher, the VRPlumber, is a philosopher of design turned computer programmer based in Toronto, Canada. He works primarily in the Python programming language, and maintains a large number of Open Source software packages. You can reach him at: mcfletch@vrplumber.com.