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New job

2009-12-17

It’s been nearly 4 weeks now that I got a new job. The company is called Velocix. We make content delivery network software. Wikipedia explains that a lot better than me here. The nice thing about the job is that I get to program Python for a living now :) .

Dublin

2009-11-22

Visiting Dublin in November isn’t perhaps the best time. And indeed, one of the days there was a bit of a wash-out. It’s still a beautiful small city though. Here are the pictures :

Customs House, on the bank of the river Liffey.

Customs House, on the bank of the river Liffey.

Andalucia

2009-10-28

Great weather, great food and great architecture : there is a lot to enjoy in Andalucia. Recently I went on a leisurely trip through Seville, Cordoba and Granada.

Alcazar in Seville

Alcazar in Seville

Bath and Bristol

2009-08-19

The Banksy exhibition in Bristol was an opportunity to visit Bath and Bristol.

Clifton suspension bridge

Clifton suspension bridge

Python logging output file change

2009-08-12

I run unit tests in Python using the standard unittest module. The output should be logged to a file. For this Python has a standard logging library, which is somewhat similar to the logging library for Java. The problem is that there is no easy way to direct the logging to a new file for every test case. Here’s how I got around it. Firstly the setup method of my testcase object contains the following : def setUp(self): self.

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