Rock the Fat Knot

I’m a hard core vi user. You just can’t beat it for a quick file edit. (This is where my friend, Jack Lunn, would argue that Emacs is better… but I think we can agree that both are faster to crank up than most IDEs.) Recently, I’ve switched to Netbeans for Java development at work. I had been using IntelliJ and it almost drove me insane. (See my post about the Corrupted Cache.) Netbeans has been working well for me, though. (It’s no vi, but it does have features that are very useful when working with large projects.) With Netbeans 6.5, you can get Python support. I’ve been using this for a few weeks now. It’s nice to have all of my Java/Python code open in one IDE. This morning, I ran across a screencast showing some upcoming code coverage support for Python in Netbeans. This looks impressive.

I’ve been reading Simon Willison’s blog for quite a while now. He frequently posts interesting ideas and links. Yesterday, I noticed that he had a link to videos from DjangoCon 2008 on YouTube. So far, I’ve watched Schema Evolution and Reusable Apps. I learned a lot from both videos. I’ve only been working with Django for a few months (mostly for this blog) and I’m really enjoying it. I think it’s really cool that they’ve posted videos from the Django conference so people that couldn’t attend (the conference or a particular talk) can check them out (and learn something). Living in rural South Carolina, there are not (currently) a lot of local opportunities to exchange ideas with other python developers. I hope that more (python related) conferences follow Django’s lead and post conference videos. Great job!