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FDD - Fika Driven Development —
FDD FTW There are many different type of development methodologies. TDD, BDD, what have you.
You also got non development centric methodologies such as Pomodoro, which help you make the most of your time.
At our group at work, we have fine tuned a brand new and shiny methodology called:
“FDD” - Fika Driven Development
[Fika](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fika_(coffee_break)) is a Swedish custom imported by yours truly.
Every day, at, it’s Fika O’clock, usually announced by SHOUTING in ascii in our IRC channel.
nose-rapido - a rapid feedback plugin for nosetests —
I use a tmux + vim development environment which I find really productive. When hacking on python projects, I like to have a tmux window open with nosetests logs, typically using nose-watch.
Every now and then after saving, I’d switch to that window to see how the tests are doing.
I wanted something a bit more small that would give me immediate feedback in my main window that I use, which is of course the vim window.
Auto Auto Reloading iPython modules —
You all use ipython, it’s an awesome tool.
However, it’s kind of annoying to exit and re-enter ipython when you change your python files.
There’s an extension built into ipython called autoreload which can be loaded by entering:
1 2 %load_ext autoreload %autoreload 2 Now whenever you edit your file, your objects will be updated in ipython without the need to close and reopen ipython.
But entering those lines each time you pop open ipython isn’t fun either.
Fast remote editing with Vim —
UPDATED: bash script now even more cool! There’s a feature in vim of editing files over scp, built in since vim 7.1 (originially the now baked in netrw plugin).
This feature uses scp to copy a local version of the remote file over scp, edit it with vim, and with each save connect via scp and save it to the remote location.
This allows you to edit remote files with your own tailored vim instance (plugin galore!
Three Amigos One Tmux —
TL;DR: telnet gameoflife.erikzaadi.com 1337
This Saturday (8th of December, 2012), was the second Global Coderetreat, and I was amongst the lucky ones to participate from Tel Aviv.
The event was epic, 30-ish geeks pairing up to 45 minutes of hacking sessions on Conway’s Game Of Life.
And that was just in Tel Aviv, about 3500 people worldwide took part in this Geekathon.
The last session I teamed up with Roy Rothenberg and Pablo Klijnjan (Yes that last name is in Klingon), both my day to day teammates at work.
Installing Bare Boned Ubuntu using the Mini ISO —
After installing Ubuntu 12.10, I got annoyed by the amount of unneeded software installed, especially the commercial lenses, offering me to buy something for every program I want to launch.
I tried Unity for about two weeks, until I decided I have to change to something else.
I used Gnome 3 with Fedora for a while before, and I really like the native multiscreen support available, that allows you to have a second monitor that doesn’t change when you switch workspace.
Unsubscribing to watching all repos in a Github organization —
Github notifications are great, but if you are a part of any organization, it quickly get’s overrun with repositories that you aren’t necessarly active with’s notifications, making it hard to filter the important bug reports on you own repos.
To unsubscribe to all repositories in an organization, open up your watching page (Login first of course).
Copy the gist below and replace THEORG with the organization you wish to unwatch it’s repositories.
Using Live Reload with Octopress —
Live Reload is an awesome Mac app and browser extension which reloads your browser automagically when editing a file. Needless to save, it’s a bliss, never to {CMD,ctrl} + R again.
For those of us who are Mac less, the App is of course not available. Ruby to the rescue!
Install the LiveReload browser extension, see long explanation.
Edit Gemfile and add the following two lines:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 source "http://rubygems.
Inheritance within Python Unit Tests —
TL;DR: Grab the gist Let’s say you have these classes in a python file:
And you want to write some simple unit tests for them, typically you’d do something like this:
running them with nosetests -v will get you the following result:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 nosetests -v test_components_verbose user@host:gist-3731389|‹master› ⇒ nosetests -v test_components_verbose.py Test that initialized is set. ... ok Test A class constructor set something.
One year of Linux —
A little more than a year ago, I started working at XIV (IBM).
The change was rather dramatic in terms of technologies that I work with. I went from being a .NET web developer to a python developer, dealing with a lot if IT and system.
Furthermore, I stopped working on a Mac (this is do miss), and have almost not touched windows for the entire year (which I haven’t missed at all).