The Mouse Vs. The Python

The Windmill talk was given by Adam Christian. It is an IDE for testing websites in various browsers. It allows the developer to build, record and edit tests. The playback and debugging is done in the IDE. It can launch Firebug in Firefox or use Firebug-Lite in the other browsers. It also has a DOM explorer.

Windmill uses ipython for running and debugging from the command line. It also has a Python Proxy API, which could be pretty cool. He ran a few videos which demonstrated how Windmill does its thing, but the text was too small to read. Hopefully Christian will put his videos online. For one thing, you can export the error reports into something that is compatible with JUnit. While I didn’t get much out of it, you might. Give their website a look over at least.

The first PyCon talk I attended was entitled About Python Namespaces (and Code Objects), presented by Jeff Rush. This talk was a little over my head. Be sure to grab the slides and watch the video when and if the PyCon organizers post them. (more…)

On March 27th,  2009, PyCon Chicago really started off. Some might call the previous two days of tutorials a pre-PyCon, but the “real” conference didn’t start until today. This morning, the organizers have scheduled an opening Plenary and some morning lightning talks. After the lightning is over, we have a break and then it’s on to the meatier talks. (more…)

Today the Pycon 2009 tutorial days finished. I attended both TurboGears classes on Wednesday, and then I went to the Py.Test and Internet Programming classes on Thursday. The TurboGears classes were mostly led by Mark Ramm, one of the core TG developers. Unfortunately, his class notes, slides and code samples were riddled with errors and bugs and thus, it was a very frustrating class. He based it on the TG2.0 20 Minute Wiki, which also had a lot of errors a few months ago. (more…)