Surfing in Kansas
2010 August 28
Since the Django Dash ended, We've been working on adding some requested new features to Read The Docs. There are a couple of major ones that we have added that I'd like to talk about.
We've added support for all ...
2010 August 22
Continuing from my previous post about Django Dash, I will be talking about another thing that I learned from the dash. This isn't as big of a post, but just something that we ran into that caused us ...
2010 August 21
I have written a couple of different services that have needed to be required when your repository has had code committed to it. The normal path of getting this to happen is to ask your users to add your special URL to their list of post-commit hooks for their repository ...
2010 August 16
This year's Django Dash just came to an end, and I'm really excited about the project that we built. I'm sure the other teams are feeling just as stoked, because there is an amazing amount of awesome work that was done in the last 48 hours.
I ...
2010 August 16
This is going to be a series of posts that talk about what I learned from the Django Dash. I think it's a really fun competetion that is also a great learning experience. I hope that this series catch on, and other people write about some ...
2010 August 08
It's conference season and I realized that I haven't talked about any of the ones that I've been to or am going to, so I figured it would be a good post.
Djangocon US is just around the corner, and I'm ...
2010 June 23
[This is part of the Large Problems in Django Series, see previous entries about: Documentation, APIs, Search, and [Database Migrations](http ...
2010 February 14
Django itself has shipped with a "semi-private" introspection API, _meta, for a long time. I have created a drop-dead simple wrapper on top of this.
The value of introspection keeps growing on me as I realize how it makes making truly reusable applications possible. It is an interesting intersection of ...
2010 February 06
UPDATE: There is a new thread about the roles and implementation of a Design Czar up on the Django Developers mailing list. Please contribute there as well, if you have thoughts and ideas.
There has been a [recent discussion](http://groups ...
2010 February 05
[This is part of the Large Problems in Django Series, see previous entries about: APIs, Search, and Database Migrations]
Django is ...
2010 January 07
A couple things I want to talk about. First of all, I will be participating in project52; which is a competetion to write a blog post in every week of the year. The last 2 years I have done the november post-a-day, and gotten about 25 of ...
2009 November 22
With Kong, I have been trying to figure out a way to provide overridden model defaults. At work, our pythonpath's default to /home/code, however your setup is probably different. It would be useful if there was a simple way to let you override the defaults for your Kong ...
2009 November 19
When working on side projects, usually you wear all of the hats. Sysadmin, developer, designer, marketing, etc. You have to do all of them, and presumably you do one or two of them well, and the others well enough to get by. Working at the Journal World has been the ...
2009 November 18
On Monday at work, our sites started to slow to a crawl. We looked to diagnose the problem, and found that the database server had a load of 10, and was struggling to keep up with the morning rush of traffic. After EXPLAINing the slow queries from the slow query ...
2009 November 17
At work we have to manage a ton of Django based sites. Just for our World Company sites, we have over 50 different settings files, and this doesn't take into account the sites that we host for other clients. At this size it becomes basically impossible to test each ...
2009 November 16
At most open source conferences, a lot of attention is given to the talks. At the ones that I have been to (Djangocon and Pycon), the most fun that I have had, and the most I have learned is during the sprints. I want to talk about the value and ...
2009 November 13
As part of the summer of code 2009, Django test coverage has been developed. I mentored Kevin Kusabik, who developed the code. It is hopefully going to be merged in 1.2, but there are still a few issues to be worked out in the implementation ...
2009 November 12
When I was about to graduate from college, I was often asked what I would be doing with the rest of my life. This is a usual question that is asked of graduates and I have very rarely heard it answered to satisfaction. Upon being asked this for the 42nd ...
2009 November 11
This is the third part of my Large Problems Series. The first two were Search and Database Migrations.
A lot of efforts have come and gone in the Django space, trying to provide a ...
2009 November 10
Updated at the bottom of the post.
Warning: This is a bit of a brain dump.
In the software industry there is a lot of back and forth about the value of a college degree. This post won't go into that too much, I just want to talk about ...
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