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After nearly 4 years of using a MacbookPro for all things internet, I’ve finally upgraded my home with a shiny new 27” iMac.

The new design is amazing, and …

A while ago I wrote a script to help manage gemsets and PATH settings when switching between Ruby projects. It has worked very well, but I’ve recently learned about …

Creating a snappy user experience can be easily obtained by implementing HTML5 navigation. Not only does it take less time to render only the needed Django templates, the browser has …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

This is part 3 in a 3 part series I’ve written on setting up a Django production site on Gentoo. In the first 2 parts I went over basic …

I’ve been taking a lot of time lately to determine a best practice way of incorporating a RESTful approach to Django views. My goal is to come up with …

Technically this should be as simple as:

sudo port install mongodb

Unfortunately, the mongodb port depends (for now) on devel/boost <= 1.49. The boost port was recently upgraded to …