This is just a reminder that you should write failing unit tests first, so that when you forget if __name__ == ‘__main__’ unittest.main() in your test file, like I did, you don’t think everything is working because none of the tests fail.

Agile processes have become the darling of the industry, and certainly there is good reason for this.  They do tend to facilitate communication and development practices that lead to better software.  However, paralleling the transition to agile is a more insidious transition: a push towards open office spaces. The argument goes that open is good, [...]