Category: Python

Django's CBVs are complex, unpythonic solutions to simple problems, (IMHO :-), here's why.

I've probably written lots of blog posts on this, so I can't claim 'x' = 1, and I've no idea what 'y' is...

I launched my new Django Bible memorization site, LearnScripture.net

TimeCult works well, and I wrote a script for converting KTimeTracker files.

How to do logging calls to Sentry asynchronously (until Sentry gets UDP support).

Some tips for keeping your Django apps lean and mean from the beginning, using lessons from django-fiber,

O gods of software development and operations, I have sinned.
 
Your anger falls on me, and I feel your wrath...

Announcing django-easyfilters, a new library for Django, and a bit of heretical editorial about Django's ORM.

First part of a series of posts that attempt to explain Python by the dissection method.

Writing good quality documentation for the software libraries you publish always matters. Otherwise, you are doing the world a disservice by publishing.

An app to help protect your customers' data when in development.

Class based views are very cool. I am starting to clean up an existing project using them, and lots of existing views are turning into declarative code. But it makes me worried about the ravioli effect.

I tend to use several music/media players, such as shell-fm, moc and Clementine. In order to be able to use the media buttons on my keyboard for pausing/skipping, I wrote this Python script to automatically route the commands to the right one.

Using IPython deep inside a program...

I discovered hgview, a really great replacement for hgk.

How can I get the Mercurial Eclipse plugin to just recognise an existing folder as a Mercurial repository?

How I set up Eclipse to work with an existing project using virtualenv

Based on my recent Haskell experience, I highlight some cases where I think static type checks provide a better testing mechanism than unit tests or other automated tests.

A lot of discussion recently has missed the point: the big question is whether the terms of any software licence are really relevant to dynamic languages...

I've blogged before about using trac as a personal wiki, now I've found I can use Emacs as my editor and trac browser it's even better...