Category: Software development

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.

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...

Here's my solution to writing an accumulator generator in PHP, listed here because Paul Graham is no longer accepting submissions...