A while ago, I found a nice little script called check_for_updates.py which uses PIP to check your installed Python packages for updates. However, it didn’t work under Python …

Today I helped a colleague debugging a web bot written in Java. Since I did’t really work with Java since a few years, I thought it would be easier …

The third and last part of this series is again just about testing. While the previous article focused on unit testing, this one will be about testing complete PyZMQ processes …

This is the second part of the series Designing and Testing PyZMQ Applications. In the first part, I wrote about designing a PyZMQ application, so this time it’s all …

ZeroMQ (or ØMQ or ZMQ) is an intelligent messaging framework and described as “sockets on steroids”. That is, they look like normal TCP sockets but actually work as you’d …

I recently got the chance to review the book NumPy 1.5 Beginner’s Guide by Ivan Idris and published by Packt Publishing.

It covers many aspects of NumPy and …

Since everything seems to work nicely, I’ve just uploaded the final Tea Timer 1.8 release.

Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to submit the new version to apple.com …