Resolver Systems announces the release of version 1.1 of Resolver One) , a revolutionary improvement in spreadsheet systems. “We’ve made quite a lot of changes, hopefully making the program more responsive and pleasant to use as well as adding cool new features.” said Giles Thomas, CTO and MD of Resolver Systems. “With this release,” said Jean Viry-Babel, Head of Sales, “Resolver One has achieved maturity and we are ready to conquer the data analysis world.”
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Jeremy Jones has been working with Python since 2001. He uses Python for test data generation, task automation, and general utility. He spends a significant portion of his day in writing and tweaking code to test specific areas of functionality.
In this interview, he tells us about his open source projects and about his favorite features in Python. He also tells us about the hurdles in developing quality software and how to negotiate them.
The only time we reach for a debugger is when something goes wrong or breaks and our standard debugging techniques do not clear the root of the problem.
The language comes with a large standard library that covers areas such as string processing (regular expressions, Unicode, calculating differences between files), Internet protocols (HTTP, FTP, SMTP, XML-RPC, POP, IMAP, CGI programming), software engineering (unit testing, logging, profiling, parsing Python code), and operating system interfaces (system calls, filesystems, TCP/IP sockets).