VirtualTam's bookmarks
29 bookmarks found
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UK Government - Digital Service Standard
2016-08-16 - Understand user needs
- Do ongoing user research
- Have a multidisciplinary team
- Use agile methods
- Iterate and improve frequently
- Evaluate tools and systems
- Understand security and privacy issues
- Make all new source code open
- Use open standards and common platforms
- Test the end-to-end service
- Make a plan for being offline
- Make sure users succeed first time
- Make the user experience consistent with GOV.UK
- Encourage everyone to use the digital service
- Collect performance data
- Identify performance indicators
- Report performance data on the Performance Platform
- Test with the minister
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SQLite Memo
2015-03-14 Common ops & clauses:
- CREATE TABLE - https://www.sqlite.org/lang_createtable.html
- ALTER TABLE - https://www.sqlite.org/lang_altertable.html
- UPDATE - https://www.sqlite.org/lang_update.html
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Practical Common Lisp
2015-02-13 Beware! Very cool book dealing with Lisp programming, with plenty of examples
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Python unit testing frameworks: Nose, Pytest
2015-02-13 Python's built-in unittest module is quite cool, but a bit limited and way too verbose (read: it's quite not easy to incite developers to write unit tests)
I'm currently looking for more dev-friendly solutions, the key points being:
- writing test code should be easy and straight-forward -keep the focus on "what to test" instead of "how to transcribe a process to a test"
- parallelization! -we, spoiled developers, should make good use of our way-too-many-cores build machines...
- complete feature set!
- we don't want to just run tests...
- coverage reports (find dead/weak/untested code sections)
- output formatting (JUnit-XML seems to be quite a common format out there)
There seem to be 3 solutions in Python:
- stock unittest + project-dependent customizations / test helpers
- nosetests
- py.test
And 2 ways of gettings things done:
- keeping things stock: no external dependency, project-specific implementation...
- using a test framework: one more module in your (test) virtualenv, more concise tests, more features (// run, code coverage, etc.)
Some links:
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CheckiO | Solve puzzles with Python!
2014-11-17 Plenty of fun tasks, riddles and puzzles to solve altogether with learning Python!
Get ready for:
- basic Python exercises (data structures, language features, common libraries)
- a handful exercises on string and data processing
- algorithmics! pathfinding, map exploration, optimization...