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 ...
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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 ...
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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!
VIDEO
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Written by David Mcilwee in misc on Sun 11 October 2015.
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!
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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 ...
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Written by David Mcilwee in misc on Sun 11 January 2015.
First article on the blog.
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