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August, 15th–17th: Sprinting on Pyramid

Posted on May 29, 2013 by

After Zope “-the-Framework” reaching the end of its lifecycle during the last few years, we did a bunch of new projects with Pyramid, a nice web framework primarily authored by long-term Zope developer Chris McDonough. We think it’s about time … Continue reading →

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Running tests using gocept.selenium on Travis-CI

Posted on April 17, 2013 by

Travis-CI is a free hosted continuous integration platform for the open source community. It has a good integration with Github, so each push to a project runs the tests  of the project. gocept.selenium is a python package our company has developed as a … Continue reading →

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PyCon 2013 report

Posted on April 2, 2013 by

PyCon 2013 was an excellent conference bringing together Python’s vast, diverse, and technically excellent community. I had the opportunity to visit the whole conference including the sprint days. Magnitude The size of the community seems well reflected by the number … Continue reading →

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How we organize large-scale roll-outs

Posted on March 3, 2013 by

In the coming week we will deploy an extensive OS update to our production environment which (right now) currently consists of 41 physical hosts running 195 virtual machines. Updates like this are prepared very carefully in many small steps using … Continue reading →

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Overcoming Self-organization Blocks in Agile Teams

Posted on February 11, 2013 by

At the SQD2013 conference Andrea Provaglio (@andreaprovaglio) talked about the social aspects of software development. He says, software development is intangible, collaborative and heuristic while our education prepares us for linear, standardized and predictable processes. (Software development) teams are systems. … Continue reading →

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Software Quality Days 2013

Posted on January 27, 2013 by

SQD took place in Vienna from January 15 to 17 2013. My first impressions where: Scrum is everywhere and open source does not play a major role. Most people I have met came from rather large organizations. They mostly face … Continue reading →

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News from the toolbox: gocept.selenium and our plans for its future

Posted on January 16, 2013 by

For a couple of years, we at gocept have been developing a Python library, gocept.selenium, whose goal it is to integrate testing web sites in real browsers with the Python unittest framework. There exist a number of approaches to doing … Continue reading →

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Happy new year – cleaning up the server room!

Posted on January 3, 2013 by

Welcome to 2013! Alex and I are using this time of the year when most of our colleagues are still on holidays to perform maintenance on our office infrastructure. To prepare for all the goodness we have planned for the … Continue reading →

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yafowil in a Pyramid project

Posted on December 17, 2012 by

In a new Pyramid project we used deform to render forms. We did not really like it. (The reasons might be detailed in another post.) To see if other form libraries do better I gave yafowil a try at our gocept Developer Punsch 3: yafowil comes … Continue reading →

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Python 2 and 3 compatible builds with zc.buildout

Posted on November 9, 2012 by

Creating a single-source build environment with zc.buildout that works for both Python 2 and 3 is a bit of a hassle. This blog post shows how to do it for a minimal demo project. During the sprints at PyCon DE … Continue reading →

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