Category: Software development
Some answers and questions on the subject of bundling copies of dependencies in a project
A response to "Things you should test" by Noah Sussman.
O gods of software development and operations, I have sinned. Your anger falls on me, and I feel your wrath...
My bash prompt, including git/hg branch name.
Writing good quality documentation for the software libraries you publish always matters. Otherwise, you are doing the world a disservice by publishing.
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 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?
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...
A simple way to use Mercurial Queues in a Subversion working directory to manage patches before committing to Subversion.
Why Haskell's 'Maybe' totally pwns Python's 'None' and null pointers.
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A rant about how annoying programming in C# is, really.
Paul Graham was right again...
An attempt to debunk some of the '20 minute web app' hype that is so prevalent at the moment, and present a more realistic and balanced account of the Django site I have just finished.
I've noticed in Python and in Django I almost always create a module or a template by starting with a completely empty file, and typing...
Ever been refactoring code or HTML templates and wanted to compare two chunks of text? This is what you need if you use KDE...
I wrote a quick Django application to help me develop compliant web sites, and put it together so it's easy to distribute...
How to create a chroot and run X applications from it, side by side with windows from your normal system.
It's very satisfying when a feature you programmed is finally tested...