Recently I found myself having to implement a fairly simple algorithm, the orthodromic (great-circle) distance between 2 latitude/longitude points. I've long looked at property based testing and it implementations (QuickCheck) with a sense of longing, but couldn't find something that would easily allow me to bring this ...
For quite a while I've been looking at Clojure, but never seem to have been able to fully dive into it.
For my PyCon 2015 presentation I've even created a full website for it, but somehow lost interest.
To combat this I'm hoping to start again, and ...
This was something I meant to post shortly after Pycon ended, but did not manage to get around to.
Pycon has come and gone and as usual was a blast.
I think (hope) my talk went down quite well, but as usual there is plenty of room for improvement!
(I ...
I'm speaking this year! I've finally got things together after the big day and have proposed a talk around my work with Behaviour Driven Development.
This has been accepted and I'm down to speak on the Sunday. I'm looking forward to presenting and seeing you there!
Postgresql has some very handy features, one of which is the range type. This allows you to express a distinct block of time as a unique value.
Using SQLAlchemy we can quickly use this to add more meaning and cut down on boiler plate.
from sqlalchemy import Column
from sqlalchemy ...First article on the blog.