Versioning production settings
July 24th, 2010
In deploying my latest side project, I came across a conundrum. How do you manage production specific settings files (complete with passwords, API keys and other secrets), while still publishing ...
FRM at TechCrunch Disrupt Hack Day
May 23rd, 2010
I've just woken up after getting some much needed sleep after the TechCrunch Disrupt conference's Hack Day. There was a lot of great energy at the hack day and some ...
The Server Switch: Light and Fast
January 31st, 2010
I recently moved my hosting from Slicehost to Rackspace Cloud. There were a variety of reasons for switching and decisions to be made along the way. My hope is that ...
Editor Sampling
December 28th, 2009
As part of my upcoming talk, I asked on twitter for editor screenshots. The sample size was quite small (22) and its biased towards people I know (so heavy python ...
What is My Encoding?
December 13th, 2009
I've setup a neat little one-page website using the Bottle micro-framework. The general idea of the site is you paste in a URL or string, and it will make a ...
A fix for your fixtures and your models subdir
October 27th, 2009
For those of you who keep your models in a subdirectory, you may have noticed that you can't properly load fixtures. This is because Django checks for the location of ...
A better way to handle settings files
October 23rd, 2009
At work, we tend to have several people working on a project at once. When its time to deploy, we deploy to several servers at once. One pain point that ...
Google account suspended: A post mortem
August 7th, 2009
A few weeks back, I had my Google account disabled. If you're anything like me, your first reaction is a lackadaisical, "That sucks." Then the realization of what that really ...
My first time using TipJoy
July 21st, 2009
So I just used tipjoy for the first time. A few thoughts. I like that they allow me to pay people without first having to dole out my credit card. ...
Piping stdout when using Buildbot
July 8th, 2009
Just a quick tidbit for anyone googling like I have been all morning: If you're attempting to pipe a command in a buildbot script, you need to issue it as ...
6 things I learned about setuptools
July 5th, 2009
While building pyvcs and django-vcs over 4th of July weekend with Alex Gaynor [ announcement ], there were a few interesting lessons learned, mostly revolving around how setuptools works. As ...
Using Database Views in Django
June 20th, 2009
Database Views will make their appearance in the upcoming Django 1.1 release. Having used them for my latest project, there are a few gotchas when it comes to using them. ...
EuroDjangoCon: Django @ 30,000 feet
May 4th, 2009
So I gave my talk related to django from the ideas of a manager at EuroDjangoCon. It was a blast and thanks to all of those who were present and ...
Customizing Django Forms with Multiwidget
April 27th, 2009
Before my talk at django-nyc tonight, I thought it might be good to post some slides so I can point people at where to find the code and slides from ...
Virtualenv Wrapper Helper
March 28th, 2009
A bit inspired by all the awesome stuff happening at PyCon, I've done a bit of hacking on my shell to improve the use of virtualenv_wrapper. Remembering to checkout the ...
