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Goodbye iOS, hello Android 30 May 2012 | 09:52 pm
My iPod touch died and I got an Android phone.
Booktools 15 Sep 2010 | 01:28 pm
A little-known bit of trivia about our book, Python Web Development with Django: we wrote the manuscript in Markdown. I think it was my idea. One of the major motivations for using a text-based forma...
A different kind of URL shortener 30 Aug 2010 | 12:08 pm
Today I'm launching my first Google App Engine site. While I built it largely to play with GAE, it is also useful in its own right (I like to think so anyway). It does two different things: Link shor...
The syncbox 14 Jun 2010 | 07:10 am
I move between a couple different computers regularly: my old 12" PowerBook and the 15" MacBook Pro my job provides me with. Like all multi-computer users I periodically bump up against the challenges...
Branching and merging in real life 8 Nov 2009 | 04:18 pm
At work I still mostly use Subversion for version control. Its main selling points: stable, performs as expected, integrates nicely with Trac, holds all our old stuff (legacy inertia). Note that "pai...
Summer Spam 24 Jul 2009 | 03:44 pm
Spam is occupying more than its customary share of my attention in recent weeks. I've long had a morbid fascination with sleazy human communication (hence Purportal.com). That makes the always-relentl...
