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Render a PDF from html using xhtml2pdf and mimerender in Flask 22 Jun 2013 | 03:53 am
I’m working on invoice/receipt generation for Close.io and wanted to create simple PDFs using nothing but HTML. Using Flask, mimerender, and xhtml2pdf, here’s how:
Sweating the UI & UX details in Close.io: Emails & Email Addresses 21 Jun 2013 | 11:35 pm
My blog post on the Close.io blog was pretty popular (18,000 pageviews & lots of HN comments) so I wanted to cross-post it here. Sweating the UI & UX details in Close.io: Emails & Email Addresses We l...
My Backbone.js book published! 1 May 2013 | 11:49 am
On my goals list for 2013 was to write an eBook of some sort. When I was approached to join some other Backbone.js contributors in a “book sprint” to write a book on developing a Backbone.js applicati...
The problem with pull requests / code reviews 1 May 2013 | 10:50 am
We use git and GitHub’s Pull Requests fairly heavily in developing Close.io sales software. My main problem with pull requests as code review is that it focuses my attention too much on the specific l...
The startups and services behind Close.io 20 Feb 2013 | 09:47 am
Originally published on the Close.io blog. The startups and services behind Close.io In creating Close.io software for salespeople, we rely on a number of other startups and services to do what we do....
Press around Close.io 20 Feb 2013 | 09:45 am
We’ve been getting some great press and feedback since launching Close.io software for salespeople. GigOm: Close.io is a social context for sales communications PandoDaily: Elastic launches Close.io, ...
End of 2012 Review 3 Jan 2013 | 02:06 am
At the end of a year I like looking back and seeing what I’ve accomplished and what new technologies I started working with in the year. Here’s a little summary. Company I started 2012 in a new role a...
Manage GitHub Issues milestones in Trello 19 Dec 2012 | 10:54 pm
In doing product management on an engineering-led project, GitHub Issues rock. The killer features are that it’s a) really simple, b) tightly integrated with code (you can reference/close issues via c...
How to unit test AJAX Requests with QUnit and Sinon.JS 18 Dec 2012 | 11:02 am
We write QUnit tests for Close.io, a big Backbone.js app, to help avoid introducing bugs. Pretty quickly when testing front-end JavaScript code you’ll have to deal with how to test asynchronous callba...
How to allow direct file uploads from JavaScript to Amazon S3 signed by Python 10 Dec 2012 | 10:25 pm
On Close.io we originally implemented Filepicker.io to allow for file uploads while sending emails. While it was a quick way to get started with file uploading initially, after several minutes of down...
