Re: [BangPypers] duck typing -A random thought

2010-06-17 Thread Dark Seid
Well, actually your interface does exist (if my object exposes the same set of methods as an instance of String, then it is a String), it's just not possible to explicitly call it out like you do in, say, Java. The concept of an interface exists in all OO languages I've used, even when there was n

Re: [BangPypers] designing programs

2010-06-26 Thread Dark Seid
Well, I vote for pencil :). That said, I start with a pencil and paper (or whiteboard) to help me understand things at a high level and then move to writing specs. My primary design tool for detail design is a TDD framework. Best, Sidu. http://blog.sidu.in http://c42.in On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 12

Re: [BangPypers] Volunteers to spread the word

2010-06-27 Thread Dark Seid
If you'd like me to, I can cross post the call to a few Ruby lists. With regards to other Python lists, I did do some digging and the only lists I found were the ones already listed at http://wiki.python.org/moin/LocalUserGroups#India Cheers, Sidu. http://blog.sidu.in http://c42.in On Sun, Jun 27

[BangPypers] [OT][ANN] DevCamp Bangalore 3

2010-08-16 Thread Dark Seid
We're happy to announce the third edition of DevCamp Bangalore - DevCamp Bangalore 3 (http://bangalore.devcamp.in) on Saturday, 4th September 2010. The event will be sponsored & hosted by ThoughtWorks ( www.thoughtworks.com) at their office in Diamond District, Bangalore. (map: http://is.gd/ejWkd

Re: [BangPypers] task tracker and issue manager

2010-10-20 Thread Dark Seid
'even if it's on Ruby?' :D If you're looking for a task manager, I've had extremely good experiences with Pivotal Tracker (which is hosted and free), so much so that we now even use it for our recruiting pipeline at C42 Engineering. If I had lots of $$$ to burn I'd use ThoughtWorks' Mingle but hey

Re: [BangPypers] When *not* to use Python

2010-10-20 Thread Dark Seid
I was wondering if I should bring this up because I was curious, but then decided not to because it's also a sensitive subject. > The only reason I'd stay away from > something like this is if I needed to work on it's code and it was in a > language that I wasn't familiar with and didn't have the

Re: [BangPypers] task tracker and issue manager

2010-10-25 Thread Dark Seid
> > so only very serious people need approach. > I could be stating the obvious here, but I suspect that the kind of people you're looking for will only contribute to an OSS project if it's got great code or solves a problem in an interesting/effective way or both. Nobody can figure this out *befor

Re: [BangPypers] task tracker and issue manager

2010-10-25 Thread Dark Seid
eev.sebast...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 11:48 PM, Dark Seid wrote: > >> > >> so only very serious people need approach. > >> > > I could be stating the obvious here, but I suspect that the kind of > people > > you're looking for wil

Re: [BangPypers] task tracker and issue manager

2010-10-26 Thread Dark Seid
> > this is a chicken and egg situation - I for one will not contribute to a > project that is not open source. And I certainly will not answer a > question like: here is a demo - will you contribute if it is open > source? > My point precisely. Thank you, Kenneth; in hindsight I did a rather bad j