A Blank Page, Part 2
Seven years ago, I wrote a post about how scary a blank page is, and how I struggle to get the big ideas out of my head and onto paper. I had all...
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A blank page is scary. It is filled with possibility, but sometimes it’s really hard to know where to start. Maybe this is why I struggle with a lot...
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So, I've been really hating WordPress as a blog engine lately. Tons of spam, lots of emails from spam accounts signing up and trying to post...
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I have been working on migrating my company's Pivotal Tracker to JIRA. We love most of the features of JIRA, but we were really missing the nice...
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If you're like me, you end up doing a lot of testing in virtual machines. I run several VMs that do various different tasks for me so that I don't...
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I have recently upgraded to OSX Lion, and I have to say that I love everything about it. Except for one thing. In many apps, the key repeat has been...
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We use a Campfire at Needle for our day-to-day communication between our tech team members and other business members. We really like Campfire's...
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A few months ago, I started investigating the health benefits of standing while I work at my computer. The benefits are myriad, and include: More...
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In my previous post about unit testing for django, I laid the groundwork for how to unit test any django application. One nice feature that django...
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Unit testing is a very important part of any software project. It helps you know that the new code you are deploying works, and isn't going to blow...
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VIM has been my editor of choice for at least 15 years. I love how fast I can edit files, perform menial tasks, and wreak general havoc on any code...
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I have been using django for web development for almost a year now, and I just recently started using South to do database migrations. To be fair,...
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Ever have this problem? You just rebuilt a machine, and when you go to SSH into it, you get the following message:...
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One of the big problems with hosting your own database solution is that you have to do backups for it on a regular basis. Not only do you need to do...
Read more →problems with facebook api and m2crypto
After doing some crypto updates to a django application that I am working on, I discovered that the Facebook API was dog slow for retrieving any...
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