I put a little personal project, vicharm, up on GitLab today. It's not ready for prime time, but it's in the...

I read this today: Readability Matters More Than Correctness which got me thinking about the relationship...

I found the Reactive Manifesto while researching executable specifications. The key concepts: Responsive (ie...

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A docker push or pull command requires an image name whose structure is: [/][:] The...

I've just read https://glyph.twistedmatrix.com/2015/11/editor-malware.html and...

Nose is my current Python testing framework of choice. When I'm doing TDD which is more or less all the time*,...

My typical working setup is a headless GNU/Linux VM which I access via ssh. This means that when I working in...

As someone who has put together quite a few business plans over the years, this short (4 minute) video from...

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I was experimenting with Python3.4 and namespace packages. Here's what I did. I created two completely...

I really like pdoc as a great lightweight python source code documentation tool. I like to invoke it:...

Just pulling together the best of the web on Python logging: https://docs.python.org/2/library/logging.html...

My standard development environment for native Android development has been Vim and Ant. Today I finally took...

I was greatly enjoying reading this article on coding when I got to the section on Django and decided that...

Mind maps really suit my way of organizing knowledge. Here is a link to pdf of my high-level Django mind map....

The Monty Hall problem is great fun. Here's how I rationalise it. There are three doors. I have to choose one....

I've just been reading this article on why sitting still is bad for you and, if I read it right, standing...

Because a number of third party services seem to believe that you cannot possibly be a serious programmer...

#!/usr/bin/env python """ A self-signed certificate generator. "openssl genrsa" generates a private key...

Health warning - this may not be accurate but it reflects my current understanding. When you write an...

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How I made a .deb file Create a directory mkdir foo Descend into it. cd foo Create a directory DEBIAN mkdir...

I was busy building a Google Gadget when I ran into a glitch. My gadget worked fine in the gagdget container...

To run a view http:////_design//_view/

Melonfire have a great xlink primer.

When making a plone product in subversion, setup the repository thus:...

paster create -t plone Then edit the buildout.cfg to record the egg in the: eggs...