Episode 001: What We Learned on Our PyCon Vacation

Welcome to the first episode of the podcast! These, my friends, are the Show Notes. Introduction to Your Hosts David Stanek @dstanek on Twitter Mike Crute @mcrute on Twitter Chris Miller @codeshaman on Twitter / codeshaman on Identi.ca PyCon 2010 Reflections Mike and Chris were impressed by the community and the group focus Ruby sucks. Mike said it. Bring it, kids. Titus likes Distribute and Pip. Who knows why? What can we learn from PyCon for regional conferences like PyOhio? Dave’s done a lot of thinking about testing He finds that nothing lets him test the way he wants. He uses nose, mock, and dingus Mote might be good for BDD, but Dave finds it lacking. Dave hates documentation. Tests could be like documentation, and would be more accurate over time. Mote parses the output more like a narrative, almost like a spec, instead of …..F…. We work with a large system, and rest assured, code is not documentation. Tests could be. Oh..we ramble about this for a while. PyCon...