[caption id="" align=“alignleft” width=“500” caption=“Prayers by Xerones”][/caption] When it comes to distributing source code, specially python code, I really wish there was a concise and detailed best practice guide for using distutils! Don’t get me wrong, the documentation is pretty good and covers a lot of ground, but what I really want is a standard “template” if you will, that python developers can take and do some minimal modifications to customize it to their needs.

Work has kept me really busy these days but I still managed to update the following appliances: http://bit.ly/Transifex Transifex (Devel): transifex revision **1453 **(log) http://bit.ly/DjangoDevKit Django Developer Kit (Devel): django 1.2 revision **12842 **(log) mod_wsgi version 3.2 Just update your existing appliances to get these updates and feel free to drop me a line if you need anything or, better yet, want to land a hand. :)

[caption id=“attachment_813” align=“alignleft” width=“243” caption=“Python Testing: Beginner’s Guide”][/caption] It is very rare to find a book that covers testing in the software world. Testing is something that authors will briefly mention on programming books and if you’re lucky you may even find a couple of lines of code related to the subject. So it was with great excitement that I purchased “Python Testing: Beginner’s Guide"by Daniel Arbuckle!. For the longest time I have wanted to start wrapping my code in testing functions so to improve the quality and reliability of what I write here at work.

[caption id=“attachment_845” align=“alignleft” width=“300” caption=“LXDE in the Google Summer of Code”][/caption] In case you missed it, the LXDE project is taking part of this year’s Google Summer of Code! I’m also very excited for the invitation to participate for the first time in the capacity of mentor! "LXDE is an energy saving and extremely fast and performing desktop solution. It works well with computers on the low end of the performance spectrum such as new generation netbooks and other small mobile computers.

The need to be thin! I don’t consider myself a “power user” when it comes to how I listen to music in general, and most of the time I’ll use whatever media player is installed by default with my distribution. Only recently I started actively tagging and editing metadata about the songs I own, so you could safely say that if I can listen to music while I work, I’m a happy camper!

UPDATE: Thanks Alberto Ruiz for pointing out that VirtualBox can use .vmdk files, so the VMware image can be used for that purpose. Thanks to the incredible work of `Zhang “Jesse” Sen <http://blog.zhangsen.org/>`__ and Vladimir Melo, a brand new release of the **GNOME Developer Kit** has been published! “What’s new”, you may ask? Everything, since all packages are built directly from git.gnome.org! :) But that alone is not what makes this release so cool, but the fact that the final image went through a dramatic “diet”, shedding a lot of its “weight” and going from a 1.

[caption id=“attachment_813” align=“alignleft” width=“243” caption=“Python Testing: Beginner’s Guide”][/caption] I was looking for some material on proper python testing in order to improve my QA skills and after some “Googling” came across “Python Testing: Beginner’s Guide”. My first impulse was to hit Amazon and see if they had it and if I could buy an ebook version. Sadly, they only had the “dead tree” version, so I decided to check if the publisher, PackT Publishing, had an alternative.