All Toby's Posts

This past weekend I participated in the  Node Knockout - a programming competition where teams of 1 - 4 members build something using node.js in 48 hours. I was very... more

The awesome folks behind JSConf just released a whole bunch of great talks in video form from the Portland event. Great chance to catch up on the talks whether you were there or not! They... more

This is the second of 2 Python book reviews. The book is Python Test Cookbook. This book is a very complete overview of all aspects of testing with Python. It starts out with simple unit tests,... more

I just finished reading Python 3 Web Development - Beginners Guide by Michel Anders and here is my book review.Michel Anders is no doubt a brilliant programmer. He has managed to go through HTML,... more

The kind folks at PacktPub are letting me review a couple of Python books. Hooray! They arePython 3 Web Development Beginner's GuidePython Testing CookbookLook for my reviews of them in the... more

For the past week or so I did some research on how best to include scripts in Tutti's sandbox environment and still get the best stacktraces possible. I got sucked in deeper and deeper and it... more

In Tim Ferris' book the Four Hour Work Week he shared the tip of minimizing the number of times you check email in a day. One reason that this approach is beneficial is because it will minimize the... more

I screwed around with Traceur last night and this morning. Then I built this thing called Try Traceur to make it easy for folk to screw around with it too. Try it! You know you... more

JSConf 2011 Portland was truly amazing experience for me, personally. Not only did I meet some fantastic people in the community - some of whom I've long wanted to meet, I also got to show... more

Indentinator is a script that inspects and changes the indentation in your source code. It is language-agnostic. "Indent your code the way you want." Install Assuming you have ruby and rubygem... more

class String def -(other) self.index(other) == 0 ? self[other.size..self.size] : nil end endThis snippet gives the Ruby String class a minus operator. Which works like> 'abcde' - 'abc'=>... more

While I really enjoy using Michael Foord's Mock library, there is one thing missing and I thought would be a fun project to add - which is the subject of this post.Fun with ParametersPython has... more