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Today I learned about the urllib3 module. The biggest feature (from my point of view) is that this one can properly validate SSL sessions. The python 2.x urllib, urllib2, and httplib libraries all vaguely speak SSL, but none of them actually look at the certificate they receive (and will …

You're probably familiar with eXtreme Programming, and branch-based development, and agile development. But I've discovered that I've been using a new technique recently, that I call Forgetfulness-Based Development. The way it works is this: I come up with something insanely complicated, that takes me weeks to get my head around …

I just got back from PyCon. Highly inspirational as always, saw some fascinating projects and some thought-provoking keynotes. r0ml's talk in particular has me thinking about how to structure code as a narrative, trying to bring the world of human-to-human communication and the world of human-to-machine communication closer together. He …