By Gabriel Falcão on junho 8th, 2010
27 days after its first release candidate, lettuce is now much mature and also got new features.
Lettuce is a BDD tool written in python, 100% based on cucumber.
There are two reasons for the name:
Lettuce is a green vegetable, just like cucumber the idea is that your tests must be always green.
Letuce is the name of a [...]
By Gabriel Falcão on abril 19th, 2010
Last night I’ve just released the first version of Couleur, which is (or at least try to be) a simple and awesome tool for using ANSI colors with python.
Couleur indeed turns very easy to handle shell colors in python.
In action
import time
import couleur
sh = couleur.Shell(linebreak=True)
for mood in ["bad", "awful", "normal", "nice", "awesome"]:
sh.red_on_black(mood, replace=True)
time.sleep(1)
Couleur creates [...]
By Gabriel Falcão on janeiro 5th, 2010
Some weeks ago I started to experiment some network issues on my debian sid:
The selenium-remote-control was not running:
I could even try to do a: “telnet localhost 4444″, it just did not work.
My Apache-Solr was not capable to subscribe to apache-activemq
When reading the log, I saw:
Could not connect to broker URL: tcp://localhost:61616. Reason: java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused
Suddenly [...]
By Gabriel Falcão on julho 5th, 2009
When I lived in Belo Horizonte/MG, I used to make hack parties with some friends of mine (nothing to say about all those pizzas and beer).
The hack parties had no specific goal, but a main idea: Hack some free software, and share the knowledge.
Many of us, but specifically Lincoln and I, used to create new [...]