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Never fix a bug twice

Posted in:
  • Django
  • Python
  • Software development
— June 19, 2012 13:42
A response to "Things you should test" by Noah Sussman.

Django's CBVs were a mistake

Posted in:
  • Django
  • Python
— May 29, 2012 14:44
Django's CBVs are complex, unpythonic solutions to simple problems, (IMHO :-), here's why.

Reasons to love Django, part x of y

Posted in:
  • Django
  • Python
  • Web development
— May 19, 2012 14:12
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...

WordShell - WordPress command line admin utility

Posted in:
  • Web development
— May 10, 2012 14:51
A nice tool developed by a friend of mine.

LearnScripture.net launched

Posted in:
  • Christianity
  • Django
  • Python
— April 20, 2012 09:46
I launched my new Django Bible memorization site, LearnScripture.net

KTimeTracker replacement - TimeCult

Posted in:
  • KDE
  • Linux
  • Python
— February 24, 2012 17:57
TimeCult works well, and I wrote a script for converting KTimeTracker files.

Async Raven/Sentry client with Django/Python

Posted in:
  • Django
  • Python
  • Web development
— February 7, 2012 21:04
How to do logging calls to Sentry asynchronously (until Sentry gets UDP support).

Some quick Django optimisation lessons

Posted in:
  • Django
  • Python
  • Web development
— January 18, 2012 10:53
Some tips for keeping your Django apps lean and mean from the beginning, using lessons from django-fiber,

Starter fabfile and scripts for a Django project on Webfaction

Posted in:
  • Django
  • Web development
— December 23, 2011 12:05
A quickstart for deploying a Django project to a shared hosting system like WebFaction.

A prayer to the programming gods

Posted in:
  • Django
  • Python
  • Software development
  • Web development
— September 19, 2011 12:52
O gods of software development and operations, I have sinned. Your anger falls on me, and I feel your wrath...

Announcing django-easyfilters (with some heresy on the side)

Posted in:
  • Django
  • Python
— June 28, 2011 12:31
Announcing django-easyfilters, a new library for Django, and a bit of heretical editorial about Django's ORM.

Family Fortunes

Posted in:
  • Personal and misc
  • Software projects
  • Web development
— May 13, 2011 13:57
A quick Family Fortunes game

Dissecting Python - part 1

Posted in:
  • Python
— March 26, 2011 04:45
First part of a series of posts that attempt to explain Python by the dissection method.

My Bash prompt

Posted in:
  • Linux
  • Software development
— February 28, 2011 23:32
My bash prompt, including git/hg branch name.

Docs or it doesn't exist

Posted in:
  • Django
  • Python
  • Software development
— January 10, 2011 16:43
Writing good quality documentation for the software libraries you publish always matters. Otherwise, you are doing the world a disservice by publishing.

django-anonymizer released

Posted in:
  • Django
  • Python
  • Web development
— December 24, 2010 12:40
An app to help protect your customers' data when in development.

django-output-validator released

Posted in:
  • Django
— December 1, 2010 22:20
finally got round to cleaning up my Django validator app...

Fuzzy testing with assertNumQueries

Posted in:
  • Django
— November 30, 2010 13:01
When assertNumQueries is overkill...

Class Based Views and Dry Ravioli

Posted in:
  • Django
  • Python
  • Software development
— November 20, 2010 04:29
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.

Use JSON instead of YAML for Django test fixtures

Posted in:
  • Django
— November 11, 2010 23:27
Today I learned that JSON is much faster than YAML for use in Django fixtures...
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