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 …

SimPy is a process-based discrete-event simulation library written in pure Python.

Ontje Lünsdorf and I have already contributed to prior version of SimPy and now have become members of the …

A few days ago I wrote about how to build SciPy for Python 2.7 on Mac OS 10.6 Snow Leopard.

Usually you want to install NumPy, SciPy and …

I recently had some struggle to build and install SciPy 0.8.0 on Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, but actually it’s quite easy.

I used the …

It took me nearly three months to fix five small issues with the documentation. But now I finally released Collectors v1.0. :-)

You can read everything important in the RC1 …

Collectors made a huge jump von v0.1 to v1.0 over the last weeks, since we added lots of changes and consider what we’ve done as stable. If …