The test box is a modest single core, 1GB ram, frankenstein cobbled together from the remaining parts of various dead computers. Not for production use. So of course it is the family PC. The family members suffered through various Windows installations but no more than I as I am the designated IT “go-to guy”. “Dad, [...]
As I mentioned in a previous post, I’m in the process of evaluating open source enterprise resource management tools (ERP) for use in our sister company (CRM Engineering Services). CRM started out as a consulting engineering firm. A chance meeting at a soccer game with the CEO of an oilfield services company started a manufacturing [...]
Documenting your Python code (or any code) is almost always a task that unfortunately is performed late in the game. Of course the best method is to document as you code, every class and function with a docstring that is explanatory and not just redundant. The more difficult the algorithm or the more clever the [...]
While debugging python code without the aid of an IDE debugger, a prevalent practice is to liberally sprinkle print statements to dump out the state. Unfortunately, these print statements are often just commented out and just add cruft. A better solution is to use the logging module.
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