Writings on various topics (mostly technical) from Oliver Hookins and Angela Collins. We currently reside in Sydney after almost a decade in Berlin, have three kids, and have far too little time to really justify having a blog.
I've been doing most of my work with Ruby this last year, as a lot of it was Puppet-related. I went through the pain and pleasure of learning Ruby and the intricacies of unit testing with test::unit and RSpec, and mocking objects with the excellent Mocha library. Now I have slightly returned to my roots by doing a bit of Python programming on another part of our codebase.
We use Python for some of…