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Setting up a python CI server with Hudson

Posted on November 4, 2009 by Joe

Installing Hudson I start with a basic virtual machine – in this case, I’m using Ubuntu Server 9.10. Once you have a basic machine installed, I recommend you make sure everything’s up to date with patches. sudo apt-get update sudo … Continue reading →

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Knowing when to back off a project…

Posted on July 12, 2009 by Joe

A couple of years ago I created the original code behind project Django Queue Service on a bet with myself at the O’Reilly Open Source Convention. A few months later I popped the whole thing up on Google Code hosting … Continue reading →

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Django 1.0

Posted on September 3, 2008 by Joe

Congratulations to the entire development team and Django community for making the Django 1.0 release today! It’s a monumental accomplishment, and I’m very pleased to see it here. I’m not as active in the community these days, but I’m still … Continue reading →

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LaunchPad

Posted on June 27, 2008 by Joe

I signed up with Launchpad today – don’t know why I hadn’t really done it earlier, other than I just didn’t think to or have any projects that drove me there. The project du jour that lured me in was … Continue reading →

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Mondrian & ReviewBoard

Posted on May 2, 2008 by Joe

Word is that the a version of the code review tool that Google uses internally (called Mondrian) on the Google App Engine – called Code Review. I remember first seeing the Google tech talk on Mondrian and thinking that was … Continue reading →

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Django and the Google AppEngine

Posted on April 7, 2008 by Joe

I’m sure that anyone into Django will either see or hear about this before they catch my blog post, but it’s too neat a story not to write about a comment on. Tonight, Google released AppEngine – an elastic computing … Continue reading →

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getting ReviewBoard running

Posted on February 14, 2008 by Joe

I made some notes on getting Review Board up and running. I thought they might be useful for someone else wishing to do the same… I implemented review board on a virtual machine, with the VM running Ubuntu Gutsy. I … Continue reading →

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Starting in with ReviewBoard

Posted on February 8, 2008 by Joe

I’ve been meaning to dive into the project ReviewBoard since I first heard about it, many months ago. I had first heard of a similar critter – Google’s internal tool called Mondrian. I was pretty darn excited about that tool … Continue reading →

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Django on Ubuntu 7.10 (gutsy)

Posted on February 7, 2008 by Joe

I slapped together a virtual machine to try out an instance of ReviewBoard. It’s been a little while since I fiddled with Ubuntu, so I grabbed the latest server release(7.10) and set it up. Then I settled in to get … Continue reading →

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benchmarking Django Queue Service

Posted on November 11, 2007 by Joe

I took some time this afternoon to benchmark out the work we’ve been doing with the Django Queue Service. We haven’t done anything to optimize it, and we’re starting to push in some code to make it fully support REST … Continue reading →

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