Monthly Archives: May 2011

Exploring Python @decorators

Posted on May 28, 2011 by alex

Today I’ve been using Python decorators to factor out common functionality in test cases. I ran into the slightly (!) interesting problem of how to define a @decorator(like_this). That is, a decorator that takes a parameter. It’s fairly trivial to … Continue reading →

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Ubuntu 10.04 LTS – experimenting with overcommit

Posted on May 14, 2011 by alex

I currently running Ubuntu 10.04 LTS as my desktop. Neither Unity nor GNOME Shell (in GNOME 3) really interest me, but that’s for another post! This one is about the exasperation I feel when Linux overcommits too much memory and … Continue reading →

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So Microsoft is buying Skype …

Posted on May 11, 2011 by alex

Yesterday (10 May 2011), news broke that Microsoft is paying $8.5B for Skype (or roughly £5.2B in English).  Skype is a rather good, if proprietary, telephony/conferencing app that is multi-platform. It currently works on Windows, of course, but also on … Continue reading →

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