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Language Personalities

Posted by Tom Schultz on July 21, 2011 None comments 
C - Doesn't tell Jokes.
C++ - Will never tell a joke about objects.
C# - Tells jokes that only windows thinks is funny.
Java - Starts telling jokes but forgets the punchline.
Ruby - Never tells a joke the same way twice.
Perl - Tells jokes it doesn't understand anymore.
Python - Only tells peer reviewed jokes.
Objective C - Starts all jokes with NS.
Haskell - Tells Jokes that no one gets.
JavaScript - Tells jokes that aren't funny.
Jquery - Re-tells JavaScript's jokes so they're funny.
Clojure - Tells the punchline first.
PHP - Tells dirty jokes and then stops running.
MySQL - Can only tell jokes that it can find on it's indexes.
CSS - Only tells jokes that IE doesn't get.
CSS2 - Only tells jokes that IE doesn't get.
CSS3 - Only tells funnier jokes that IE doesn't get.
HTML - Tells you everything about the joke before it tells you the joke.
Django - Puts a new spin on old jokes you've heard before.
Rails - Tells one joke that's really funny but that's it.
Drupal - Calls in bomb threats.
NodeJS - Tells jokes that aren't funny on the server.

Post your language joke personalities!

Python code metrics

Posted by Tom Schultz on May 7, 2010 1 comments

Recently at work I’ve been pushing to start tracking some metrics on our python code base. There are a few tools out there like pygenie, pychecker and pylint. These seem to be the leading code metric tools for python at the moment. Where I work we have eagerly adopted pylint in our daily use of python.

Pylint seems to be the most useful for the day to day developer. It’s fast and flexible, you can run it on the file you’re working in,a group of files or the entire project.

There are some problems with all of these tools when it comes to frameworks. I’ve been using django alot lately and with the way that it has it’s settings.py file integrated it kind of  tricks these lint tools. So you may see errors saying something like this…

ImportError: Settings cannot be imported, because environment variable DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE is undefined.

There are a couple django-lint checkers it appears.

django-lint is a project that appears to have died. I’ve tried to use this a little bit, but I haven’t really had much success.

It appears however that the project has moved or branched http://chris-lamb.co.uk/projects/django-lint.

I haven’t tried this version but I imagine it would be better since it was last updated in March 2010.

You can also set the DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE environment variable like this…

$ export DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE=mysite.settings
$ django-admin.py runserver

So here’s my story:

I have some surprising elements that came out of looking for lint tools for python or any other programming language that you’re working in.

One, was that my team latched on to the pylint scoring mechanism instantly and it became a game of who could get a perfect score over all the code they were working in.  This is good for a few reasons, and I challenge those nay sayers out there.

Warning: POINT ahead!

Ok yes, maybe “your” coding style isn’t accomodated in pylint…you know what! It doesn’t matter.  The POINT is that everyone is meeting a STANDARD.

That’s the point! I don’t care if no one can get a perfect score unless all their variables start with “i” (which I assume is Apple’s policy).  The power that comes with everyone driving, pushing and accelerating in the same direction is far far far more valuable than “your” coding style.

Symfony sfModelGenerator.class.php line 321 error

Posted by Tom Schultz on February 9, 2009 4 comments

Well I’ve been playing with Symfony and I started building modules today from the Jobeet day 3 tutorial and I ran into an issue.   The Symfony Project is basically a framework in which you can build PHP web applications which I’ve been using for a school project.

I’m not sure if I missed a step of if this is a system specific problem but basically I went to run the “symfony propel:build-module” command to genereate my module files and I got this error.

Fatal error: Class ‘PersonForm’ not found in /var/www/cam/trunk/lib/generator/sfModelGenerator.class.php on line 321

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