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Functional testing with Lettuce and Fabric

After the launch of Nebula, from which I think I’m mostly recovered, I’ve been thinking about and working on ways to allow us to accelerate development. Our team has done a fair bit of work on the Openstack Dashboard, an … Continue reading

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Benchmarking Celery

Before you even go there, I’ll preface this with YMMV. This little post is to document a benchmark that I did for an internal use case, in the hopes that it’ll be helpful for others. As a benchmark, I wasn’t … Continue reading

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jquerymobile and having design constraints

I’ve been working on this idea/project called Eyes for the past year on and off. Maybe for the past 4 to 6 months I’ve been stymied by what I want the visual representation to look like, struggling with the options … Continue reading

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Django 1.1 Testing and Debugging

I borrowed a copy of Django 1.1 Testing and Debugging from a friend today. Spent the bus ride home from the office flipping through the pages, and I’ve got to say – it’s a pretty darned good book! If you’re … Continue reading

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Ubuntu 10.04 (Desktop)

I’ve been using Ubuntu as my distribution of choice for VM’s and server instances, and on a lark I took a swag at installing Ubuntu desktop onto a VM yesterday. I’ve got to say, it’s a pretty usable setup. I … Continue reading

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The darker side of Pinax

I really like the concept of Pinax, but I’m beginning to see the darker sides of the project. Here’s the fundamental issue: Pinax does a completely kick ass job of making a combined and base project that pulls together a … Continue reading

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Pinax cheat sheets

I have a few friends that I’m bringing up to speed pretty quickly on Django. The basics are going well, and I’m providing the foundations for the effort. To take advantage of all the good stuff out there, I’ve started … Continue reading

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Using fabric to deploy a Pinax project

I spent the better part of this morning screwing around with Fabric to get even a basic deployment working correctly with Pinax. I may be doing this horrifically backwards… Since I finally nailed something that worked for me and I … Continue reading

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integrated project management for development

Ironically, the choices for an in-house integrated project management toolchain are, to my mind, significantly more limited than the straight up open-source market. I have been looking and watching several projects over the past months for something that I could … Continue reading

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South – incredible easy migrations for Django

I’ve been hacking away at a side project for the past three or four weeks – got myself to internal milestone #2 this weekend, for which I’m really pleased. The very tail end of this milestone was deploying the code … Continue reading

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