October 2012 Archive
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Using Google to Send Mail in Django
If you have a Gmail account (or a Google Apps account), you can use it to send mail on your behalf just like any other email client. Remember to use …
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Decorating Django Tests
Just a quick note: when decorating Django tests you have to take care to name your return function using the same “test_” format otherwise an unmodified TestRunner will not discover …
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"subject" Decorator for Django Tests
The Python elite will probably turn their noses up at me, but I just conjured an even better looking way to write my tests.
Using my utilities.py file I …
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Django: A New Way to Write Tests
Taking a lot of inspiration from Ruby’s RSpec, I’ve established a new way to write my tests when doing TDD in Django. Using django-nose, factoryboy, and a few …
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Mitt Romney and Spain
“I don’t want to go down the path of Spain,” Romney said Wednesday night during the first presidential debate. He argued that government spending under Obama has …
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Nonrequired Reading
Via Synapse:
On my desk stand three books that _2501 was kind enough to let me borrow. 2 psychology, 1 management and 1 rethorics. As I was skimming through them …
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Mainstream Media Hiding in Your Closet
FOX News is ready for the big debate tomorrow. They’ve peppered their front page with anti-Obama articles and released this special report on a poll revealing America’s new …
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Book Review: The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt
The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt by Edmund Morris
This mountain of a biography chronicles the life of Theodore Roosevelt before he became president at the age of 42. It is …