Barry Warsaw's Weblog http://www.artima.com/weblogs/index.jsp?blogger=pumpichank Artima Weblogs is a community of bloggers posting on a wide range of topics of interest to software developers. Artima.com http://www.artima.com/images/artima88x33.gif http://www.artima.com/ Stupid datetime testing http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=251755 Testing APIs that use the current date and time are a pain because those values are variable. In Mailman 3 I hit upon a really dumb, simple way to do this that doesn't suck. Open source saves another marriage http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=234982 My wife saved two important SD cards from her camera to a faulty USB disk I'd given her. The images got corrupted and she'd deleted the files from her cards. Could Open Source come to the rescue? Let's hope so because divorces are expensive! Memory debugging in Python -- fighting the GC http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=174099 Debugging memory use in a Python program is hard, and sometimes you have to fight the garbage collector. Requiem for an operator http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=173477 Guido kills <> in Python 3000. I am sad. Learning By Breaking http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=5477 One of the best ways to learn how a system works is by breaking it.