Ned Batchelder

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21st century life in transition

posted 8 February

Sitting at the breakfast table, my wife Susan was reading the paper, and when she got to the end of a story, dragged her finger down the paper to try to scroll the newspaper. » more..

Test classes, singular or plural?

posted 7 February

A minor hiccup in writing unit tests is how to name the classes that contain them. The jUnit style of test class, which has been adopted by virtually everyone, including Python's unittest module, is that tests are methods of a class. » more..

25 minutes is a bitch

posted 6 February

This is the season for preparing talks for PyCon, which is less than two weeks away. I've not only been working on mine, but I organized rehearsals for the other Boston-area speakers, so I've been immersed in the process. » more..

Custom letters 2009

posted 3 February

Custom Letters 2009 is an encyclopedic collection of hundreds of custom lettering projects done in the past year. The diversity is astounding, ranging from simple primitive art to elaborate hyper-calligraphic orgies. » more..

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Code

software for your use

  • ▫ Aptus ·· a Mandelbrot set explorer
  • ▫ coverage.py ·· for measuring Python code coverage
  • ▫ hyphenate ·· for hyphenating words with the Liang/Knuth algorithm
  • » more code..

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About me

I'm a software developer in my mid-forties. I have a good-sized family: one wife and three boys, one autistic. We live outside of Boston.» more..