Rob's Cogitations

htty, the HTTP TTY

Fri, 26 Aug 2011 13:54:00 -0700

I’ve been playing with APIs lately, namely Django Tastypie, and this looks like a great way to interact with it while developing and testing.

SSH Can Do That? Productivity Tips for Working with Remote Servers

Thu, 18 Aug 2011 07:53:11 -0700

SSH Can Do That? Productivity Tips for Working with Remote Servers:

Some great tips for using SSH.

Advanced Aspects of the Django Ecosystem: Haystack, Celery & Fabric

Wed, 22 Jun 2011 09:43:10 -0700

Advanced Aspects of the Django Ecosystem: Haystack, Celery & Fabric:

An awesome slide deck from Simon Willison with great code examples for some of the more complex tasks of building a Django websites, like search and facets, asynchronous processing of anything taking more than 200ms, and automated deploys.

Caktus Blog » Archive » Testing Django Views for Concurrency Issues

Thu, 18 Feb 2010 16:37:52 -0800

Caktus Blog » Archive » Testing Django Views for Concurrency Issues:

Always wondered about an easy way to test threading and concurrency issues. This post shows a decorator you can add to your views to simulate N number of threads.

HTML5 video markup, compatibility and playback

Sun, 14 Feb 2010 13:28:58 -0800

HTML5 video markup, compatibility and playback:

Excellent description of the browser workflow and how to use HTML5 video while falling back to Flash for unsupported browsers/codecs.

How to Make a Heatmap – a Quick and Easy Solution | FlowingData

Thu, 11 Feb 2010 11:56:07 -0800

How to Make a Heatmap – a Quick and Easy Solution | FlowingData:

I love these articles walking you step by step on using R.

Django Advent

Wed, 10 Feb 2010 23:26:43 -0800

Django Advent:

The site Idan Gazit and I worked on that showcases upcoming features of the next Django release. Built with new-ish technologies like the upcoming Django release, HTML5, and CSS3 — it was a fun…

Ultimate IE6 Cheatsheet: How To Fix 25+ Internet Explorer 6 Bugs

Wed, 06 Jan 2010 08:24:42 -0800

Ultimate IE6 Cheatsheet: How To Fix 25+ Internet Explorer 6 Bugs:

Tips and explanations for common IE6 problems.

Backyard at Night: Playing with the tripod and 10 second...

Sat, 02 Jan 2010 22:41:01 -0800

Backyard at Night:

Playing with the tripod and 10 second shutter in my backyard.

CSS String Truncation with Ellipsis

Wed, 30 Dec 2009 11:01:27 -0800

CSS String Truncation with Ellipsis:

Matt Snider shows how to accomplish a nice UI that keeps its vertical height on long strings by truncating strings with an ellipsis using only CSS on the client side. Complete with Firefox example…

Woof - simply exchange files

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 10:06:24 -0800

Woof - simply exchange files:

Very simple local file sharing: `woof filename` serves the file over HTTP once (or configurable number of times), then terminates. It’s a single Python script that can live in ~/bin.

NodeBox | Library

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 14:58:57 -0800

NodeBox | Library:

Lots of interesting bits of Python in this library, including things like linguistic analysis and semantic networks.

Github Unicorn

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 09:28:45 -0700

Github Unicorn

pympler - Project Hosting on Google Code

Fri, 16 Oct 2009 07:31:28 -0700

pympler - Project Hosting on Google Code:

Pympler is a development tool to measure, monitor and analyze the memory behavior of Python objects in a running Python application. Pympler integrates three previously separate modules into a…