Yesterday I presented at the 2012 PMI Project Management Symposium in at the Crystal City Hyatt in Arlington, Virginia. My slides for the... read more
Yesterday I presented at the 2012 PMI Project Management Symposium in at the Crystal City Hyatt in Arlington, Virginia. My slides for the... read more
Matt Camilli and I gave a talk Tuesday night introducing about 30 non-developers to the Python programming language's history, philosophy, and differences from other languages, as well as an industry analysis of companies using Python. Matt... read more
The top post on Hacker News this morning is about a Django (1.5 development branch) site running on Python 3. Why is a Django site running on Python 3 newsworthy? Because while Django 1.5 is tested... read more
I am often asked by friends and colleagues about what first steps a non-technical person should take when they come up with ideas and want to do something with them. I always appreciate these requests since it provides recognition that I have some insight into software development in the entrepreneurship and small business space. This is my... read more
I found this blog post on Curiosity's hardware and software to be a fascinating read. The Curiosity rover has 2.5 million lines of C code running on custom radiation and extreme temperature hardened computer... read more
This is a very specific blog post on what my Fabric fabfile.py looks like for rebuilding my database. This is particularly useful early in a project lifecycle before I start using South for database migrations and instead I am building new tables and columns at a fast clip.
def rebuild_db():
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I recently read and enjoyed the following Python blog posts (in no particular order).
Short answer: before you use wget, specify 'export http_proxy=my.proxy.server:port' then wget will use the proxy.
I needed to grab some files with wget while working on a Linux server I was setting up for a Django deployment. Unfortunately, I was behind a firewall and had to use a specific proxy for HTTP connections.
pip makes... read more
I recently purchased and read two design books, Bootstrapping Design by Jarrod Drysdale and Step by Step UI Design by Sacha Greif. Both books came out around the same time and were on the front page... read more