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Archive for November 20th, 2009
20Nov
Continual Integration Testing for Web Applications: Remote testing with Celerity, Watir, and Cucumber
Posted by Elf Sternberg as programming, python, ruby, web development
This is part 4 of a series. So far, we’ve written a basic Django application, written some tests for it, checked everything into a central repository, and then integrated those tests with the Hudson continual integration server. But Django’s tests run in a kind of pseudo-server mode, with both the tests and the application running [...]
20Nov
Python: Decorators With Arguments (with bonus Django goodness)
Posted by Elf Sternberg as django, programming, python
For the past few days, this has been bugging the Hell out of me and I finally decided today to knuckle down and figure out how the hell Python decorators-with-arguments work. Basic Decoration The basics: A python function takes arguments, performs a task, and returns a value. A decorator takes as its argument a function, [...]
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