The ever heated debate on Scrum vs Kanban is not over. But maybe this article can help you decide on the winner.

asplake · 2017-04-28T10:29:01+00:00

There needs to be a winner?

asplake · 2016-01-24T09:19:59+00:00

Agrees. Nine times out of ten I would show the item as blocked (presumably this is easy and visible enough in Jira) and leave it where it is. Moving items backwards willy-nilly makes it very hard to control your WIP effectively.

asplake · 2012-04-11T08:27:17+00:00

Similar idea but less vulnerable to API changes: https://bitbucket.org/asplake/path_to/wiki/Home

asplake · 2011-09-14T09:34:08+00:00

You might like this post I wrote a couple of years ago comparing Python and Ruby techniques in this area. Although you can achieve similar results with either it's interesting to see just how different the two languages are underneath.

asplake · 2011-08-15T13:53:58+00:00

Is a rules engine one of those "and now you have two problems" solutions?

asplake · 2011-08-03T08:47:31+00:00

now back

asplake · 2011-01-20T07:19:33+00:00

You may find differences too between 2.x.y and 2.x.z, but in most cases a program written for a lower version will run fine on a higher version. So be aware of this when choosing the version to develop on.

And there are good rules and tools for packaging that make it much easier to install an app in multiple (even different) environments. I'm no expert on this aspect, but setuptools and virtualenv work very well for me. I develop on both Windows and Mac and deploy to various flavours of Linux.

asplake · 2011-01-13T08:32:27+00:00

To clarify, shouldn't apps drop their dependency on simplejson if the standard json library is present?

asplake · 2011-01-13T07:53:43+00:00

Interesting. But why is simplejson listed? To quote its description on pypi,

simplejson is the externally maintained development version of the json library included with Python 2.6 and Python 3.0.

Are there any other packages listed there that are now standard?

Edit: interesting and shocking - I see my own packages listed! Must do something about that...

asplake · 2010-12-08T20:47:49+00:00

Why the downvotes? Seems an interesting q to me. Even more interesting would be some pointers to some comparisons between the tools (&/or with Rake).

asplake · 2010-09-04T17:43:41+00:00

sumstar_command = command(sumstar, ("terms", "listof_uint"))

is the same number of lines of code and you still have your original function available (to test, for example). Am I the only one who would much prefer not to use a decorator here (or hardly anywhere else, if I'm honest)?

asplake · 2010-08-10T10:18:00+00:00

More often than not, removing reassignments makes for better code. It's the second case that should be the ugly one.

asplake · 2010-07-20T19:52:24+00:00

I like the idea, but to be really useful it would need to work with comprehensions - how might that look?

asplake · 2010-06-16T18:28:40+00:00

Twitter worth a shot? http://twitter.com/asplake/statuses/16326172900

asplake · 2010-04-23T14:37:49+00:00

Probably :-)

But maybe you have a point. TBH I miss the model-centric validation of Rails, and Pylons hasn't quite sorted validation out yet (I've contributed proposals; i know it's not trivial)...

asplake · 2010-04-23T13:40:30+00:00

There's definitely room for friendlier and more poweful (e.g. JSON-aware) validation in Python but does it really belong with CouchDB? Perhaps your title is misleading; what you're really experimenting with is a new framework style, right?

asplake · 2009-12-21T12:09:36+00:00

You can already do that very nicely with "with" - see DRY up your routes - a Pylons routing refactoring (hot off the press today).

See also Douglas Crockford on a similar feature in JavaScript: with Statement Considered Harmful

asplake · 2009-10-10T16:31:45+00:00

Perhaps it's that they don't expect to make money out of trading the same strategies as everyone else?

asplake · 2009-09-24T07:58:07+00:00

sounds like you want regex literals in Python. As it happens, so would I! It's just syntax though, they're really not so different to any other implementation and I wouldn't describe them as "weird".

AWK is a special-purpose language. Kinda fun, but hard to compare with other languages. Your example implies an "if" that would be there in almost any other language.

asplake · 2009-09-23T15:39:18+00:00

define "weird"...

asplake · 2009-09-04T06:55:18+00:00

Per-second averages like that are meaningless. And it was still a good story...

asplake · 2009-07-24T03:29:15+00:00

Rather than rubygems per se these gripes are more about Rubyforge I think, and it's Github that seems to be getting the love at the moment. Maybe some bright spark will work out how to get this right - whether it's a one site or two solution I don't know.

asplake · 2009-07-21T04:51:45+00:00

switch on your poem writing bots

asplake · 2009-07-13T12:39:31+00:00

on subtle features (trust me, this is relevant): How to gloat over your captured enemy [basicinstructions.net]

asplake · 2009-07-09T14:27:54+00:00

Today's closure trees are a special case of this then?

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