Blog posts

In April Packt published Django 1.1 Testing and Debugging by Karen M. Tracey. After reading it I figured I might as well write a review.

After a comment by Matt Hamilton on Twitter about the lines of code in my website project I listed in my previous weblog entry, I decided to dive in a bit deeper.

This site is now powered by Django instead of Plone. Yes, I’ve finally made the switch!

The summary: as of today, you no longer need to checkout enablesettrace from the Zope Subversion repository. You can just use the Products.enablesettrace egg to debug your restricted Python code.

On 19 February I held a presentation for my colleagues about distributed version control systems (DVCS). My main goal was to inform them on what I think is the next logical step in source control.

Recently I read some articles about web designers. This got me thinking about the qualities I think you need to be a good designer and about the different ways a design can be made.

Today I read two articles about the usefulness of unit testing. Here are my thoughts.

I frequently have to send emails from web applications. But before I deploy to a production environment, I want to make sure the mechanism works and the right mails are constructed. Here’s two ways to do that.

A couple of years ago, Joel Spolsky wrote “The Joel Test”. Let’s see how Zest Software scores…

After spending most of the afternoon on an airport it finally hit me: there’s more than meets the eye to the whole process of boarding a plane.