Jonathan, you're always welcome to drop by the C42 Engineering office
and chat us up. One of my colleagues, like you, has moved here from
Canada, so maybe a conversation with him would be helpful.
I'm personally not a big fan of shared workspaces in Bangalore, but
I'll defer to the others on the l
This is sad news. My condolences to Kenneth's family and loved ones.
Regards,
Sidu.
On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 6:56 PM, satyaakam goswami wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 3:25 PM, JAGANADH G wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>
>> Just now I got a message that our dear KG (Kenneth Gonsalvas) passed away.
>> He was
Puneet,
I feel strongly enough about this that I'm going to go slightly OT,
but I'll limit myself to this one email so I'm not annoying the rest
of the list.
> The idea is small and so we are not comfortable discussing this in open
> form yet.
I've been hiring long enough to know that unless the
The only suggestion I have, then, is that we be stricter about the
right tagging.
I prefer job posts by engineers for engineers (because these are
generally well written, informative and correctly tagged), and a
significant upswing in untagged recruiter posts prompted my suggestion
to Noufal.
Che
I'm starting to suspect we need a bangpypers-jobs list.
Best,
Sidu.
http://blog.sidu.in
On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 4:20 PM, wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Immediate JOB Requirement
> Python/Perl Developer
>
> Job type: Contractual
>
> Duration: 1 Month (Can extended up to 2 Months)
>
> Location: Bangalore
>
Hi Siva,
http://learnpythonthehardway.org/ is an excellent place to start.
Best,
Sidu.
http://c42.in
http://rubymonk.com
On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 12:28 PM, Siva Ranganath wrote:
> Hello ,
>
>
> I am Siva Ranganath from Hyderabad, I am looking for help from this Community.
>
> As iam new to the Py
;>
>> Today's Topics:
>>
>> 1. Re: [chennaipy 1126] [XPost][Slightly OT] Could you share
>> your experiences about Python Freelance programming, from a
>> programmer's perspective (Sidu Ponnappa)
>>
>>
>> -
urs a day travelling to get there).
TL;DR - you may actually want to target folks around you at the IT
park rather than freshers. They'll be more amenable to what you're
pitching to them.
On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 2:31 AM, Rajeev J Sebastian
wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 11:05 PM
u though that on the hiring
front, things are no better here :)
Best,
Sidu Ponnappa.
http://c42.in
http://rubymonk.com
On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 10:47 PM, Rajeev J Sebastian
wrote:
> Thanks Sidu and Senthil for your recommendations, which were very
> helpful. As you suggested, the most important c
> So my question: how does one gauge aptitude in programming?
Get them to write code. One common thread for us is that we have
everybody write code irrespective of experience. Half the code at
home, and if that passes muster, we have them come into the office and
pair with us on expanding their so
> I have a friend, who's finished his education and looking for work.
I think the first thing a grad should be looking to do is to get
better. I can't comment on the Py freelancing scene, but I will say
that if he wants to make money he probably can, but that his software
engineering skills will al
You may want to consider using make or rake FWIW - medium to long
term, they are far easier to manage than ant, maven etc.
Best,
Sidu.
http://c42.in
On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 8:11 PM, Senthil Kumaran wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 03, 2011 at 11:37:41PM +0530, Subhodip Biswas wrote:
>
>> Can you point me to
If these are two different apps, why not simply use something like
OAuth for SSO?
Best,
Sidu.
On Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 9:13 PM, Ansal wrote:
> Hi,
> I have a django app running on my domain. I have another django app running
> on its subdomain. How can I share the same login session on this subdo
o games.
For more information, please take a look at our careers page[1].
Thanks,
Sidu Ponnappa.
http://sidu.in
[1] http://c42.in/careers
[2] http://c42-ruby-tdd-jul11.doattend.com
[3] http://github.com/c42
[4] http://github.com/c42engineering
[5] http://blog.c42.in/tag/conference
[6]
No offense, but could you please take this discussion off-list?
On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 12:37 PM, Apurv Verma wrote:
> Hi Paras,
> I guess good must only be a euphemism for exceptionally bright or awesome.
> I am not these both. I have had experience of programming in python. I am
> mainly a Jav
> Along the same lines...the problems are more when xml is concerned, for even
> if some other tag is malformed, then the
> whole document is 'gone'.
Well, then - the API is broken and is basically violating the TOS for
the API (which I would at a minimum expect to return valid output or
the approp
+1.
On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 12:20 PM, Noufal Ibrahim wrote:
> Venkatraman S writes:
>
>> On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 11:31 AM, Noufal Ibrahim wrote:
>>
>>> > I am a speed-maniac and crave for speed; so if the assumption is
>>> > valid, i can vouch for the fact that regexp would be faster and neater
If you're doing this repeatedly, you may want to just delegate to a
native XPath implementation. I haven't done much Python, so I can't
comment on your choices, but in Ruby I'd simply hand off to libXML
using Nokogiri. This approach should be a whole lot faster, but I'd
advise benchmarking first be
When reviewing a resume, we simply ignore the years of experience. It
matters little, since what we care about is capability, and there are
other indicators of that (like an active github account to name one).
Our interview process involves writing code; perhaps not as much as
we'd like, but enough
> My outlook is that code is liability. If I can get the job done without
> "writing" code, that's probably what I'll do.
Agreed.
Best,
Sidu.
http://c42.in
On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 10:03 AM, Noufal Ibrahim wrote:
> Sidu Ponnappa writes:
>
>>> many bit
> many bitter experiences - security is a nightmare for php apps. Take a
> look at the number of security updates wordpress has per *month* - more
> than django has had in 6 *years*.
That is based on strong correlation between PHP applications and poor
engineering.
If we're having a philosophical
Hi everyone,
I'm not sure how many people will be interested in this, but I thought
I'll post anyway. We're launching our fledgeling training division in
a couple of weeks with a course in Test Driven Development - here's
the DoAttend link: http://c42-ruby-tdd-jul11.doattend.com
The only catch is
Hi Noufal,
Is there a link on the site that shows the sponsor brackets etc. I
looked and couldn't find it - something like
http://rubyconf.org/sponsor would be nice.
Thanks,
Sidu.
http://c42.in
On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 6:31 PM, Noufal Ibrahim wrote:
>
>
> Hello everyone,
> We're still loo
>>> I can talk about OuchDB, a project I'm working on to implement CouchDB
>>> API on relational databases.
>>>
>>
>> Curious : whats the use case?
I would use it just because the name is awesome. :)
Best,
Sidu.
http://c42.in
On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 4:29 PM, Noufal Ibrahim wrote:
> Venkatraman S
I find quite satisfactory.
On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 11:51 PM, Santosh Rajan wrote:
> On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 11:12 PM, Sidu Ponnappa >wrote:
>
> > You missed
> > 4) Found a company to sell services and support around your open source
> > product. (MySQL, RedHat, Pentaho)
You missed
4) Found a company to sell services and support around your open source
product. (MySQL, RedHat, Pentaho)
5) Found a company whose commercial offerings (services/products) you
popularise by bouncing off the popularity of your open source (37 Signals,
Thoughtbot)
Does a business model ex
d overrides Response's default
implementation of the 'follow' method to make this possible in a manner
that's transparent to the end user of the library.
On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 7:35 PM, Noufal Ibrahim wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 06 2011, Sidu Ponnappa wrote:
>
> >> Why do
> Why do you want to create a class that doesn't create itself when called?
It's interesting this came up today - we were just arguing about this at
work on Monday. Some of my colleagues are of the opinion that this is a Bad
Thing and should never be done. I agree that while it's a bad thing, there
> This might sound crazy..and dont know if its even possible, but...
You aren't and it is. If the underlying interpreter is encapsulated in the
right way[1], it is certainly possible. This is exactly how multiple
interpreters run in a single JVM instance[2] in JRuby (though the reason
this feature
Feel free to use our office; the only limitation is that we don't have a
projector.
Best,
Sidu.
On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 2:07 PM, Noufal Ibrahim wrote:
>
> Shouldn't we hold one of these? It's been too long. Sometime early
> February?
>
> --
> ___
> Ba
>
> d. Refactoring without having test cases is a strong test for bravery.
> Usually I classify myself as timid in such situations and either write some
> tests or back off.
>
Absolutely. I'd put myself into the same category.
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>
> This may not
> be true with badly written or maintained systems, which is why
> many people shudder at the thought of refactoring their code base.
> In such houses the thinking is, "if it works, leave it alone", an attitude
> that is the exact opposite of the refactor.
>
Actually, the book
In a LUG list a ruby guy made a statement
> that 'No self respecting developer could function without having read
> the refactoring book'. How relevant is this to python?
>
I'd say this is relevant if you're working in an OO language. Refactoring
applies anywhere, but the patterns documented in th
>
> but does using classes mean one is
> doing OOP?
>
Not necessarily, no. Also, one can do perfectly good OO in languages like
javascript or Io which have no classes.
To answer the OP's question, assuming you're already a competent progammer
in any one language, I'd recommend Fowler's 'Refactorin
Perhaps you need a single sign-on option? Something like OAuth 2 might help.
Best,
Sidu.
http://c42.in
On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 11:40 AM, Anubha Dadhich wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Can two django projects be made to communicate with each other and share
> the same session, user_authentication etc., either a
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