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07/20/2006

Using Zope is a big deal

The Plone 2.5 release has now been announced officially. Congrats to the Plone developers, especially the release manager Alec Mitchell. I've had the pleasure to work with him closely lately as he's made valuable contributions to Five. Plone deserves a release manager like him. plone.org also has a new look. They now seem to have adopted the more horizontal kind of ...

Posted by Philipp von Weitershausen @ 07/20/2006 01:44 AM. - Categories: Plone, Zope Community - 5 comments

07/06/2006

Uncertainty principle of testing?

Some people believe that untested code is broken by definition. Today I came to a different conclusion. We all know about Schrödinger's cat. As long as we don't open the box ("measure" or "test"), the cat is both dead and alive, a superposition of the two possible states it can have. Same with code. Untested code is both working and broken at the same time, until you ...

Posted by Philipp von Weitershausen @ 07/06/2006 11:36 PM. - Categories: Miscellania - 1 comments

07/06/2006

Recovering data lost between here and Mongolia

My dad returned from a trip to Mongolia past weekend. A couple of days before he went there, he had bought a digital camera (his first one) to take some pictures on his trip. And boy I have been wanting to see those pictures. When he returned and plugged the camera to his Mac, the pictures were gone, though. No one knows where they are. They were just gone. Bummer. Of ...

Posted by Philipp von Weitershausen @ 07/06/2006 01:35 AM. - Categories: Miscellania - 0 comments

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