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Test generators are an amazing tool when you are testing small variations in the same code path.

Database views will make their appearance in the upcoming Django 1.1 release.

Insert jQuery : This bookmarklet is amazing if you’re a firebug user.

Here’s a handy bash shortcut for automatically checking out a google-code project. # SVN ALIASES export GOOGLE_CODE_CHECKOUTS="$HOME/Code/trunks" gcco () { svn checkout http://$@.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ $GOOGLE_CODE_CHECKOUTS/$@ }

For those who’ve hit the following complaint with django (like I just did): psycopg2.InternalError: current transaction is aborted, commands ignored until end of transaction block You need to set up PostGIS and ensure that the table you’re looking at has…

Just a quick tidbit for anyone googling like I have been all morning: If you’re attempting to pipe a command in a buildbot script, you need to issue it as a single string, not a list of strings.

I’ve spent a portion of this evening trying to get caught up with the crazy amounts of development that have been going on with the oebfare blogging engine over the past few weeks.

/Note: This represents a snapshot in time.

Setting up my new macbook, I’ve had to go through the joy and pleasure that is macports.

The general idea for JS Test Driver is that it allows you to run javascript unit tests.

I think there is a bit of a pain point for me currently with regards to open source software: documentation.

A few weeks back, I had my Google account disabled.

For those of you who keep your models in a subdirectory, you may have noticed that you can’t properly load fixtures.

There were a few insights I got when I switched from vim to emacs.

A (very) Brief Background# So emacs is one of those programs that never dies.. it just looks that way.

As not to give false ideas of what this post is about, let’s lay it out up front.

So I’m a huge fan of Panic’s Transmit application, as referenced by my favorites post.

My first project for the new job has been creating an internationalized version of the website.

For those poor souls who are forced to deploy Django on IIS, I feel your pain.

django-voting is a reusable application which gives you reddit-style voting capabilities on generic objects.

As I near the end of my run with AiO, I’ve been asked to come up with a portfolio.

I’ve spent the last year in classes at AiO, and they have really brought me a better understanding on the importance of things like branding.

This once contained slides to a talk I gave to django-nyc.

For the final installment of Bash: Your forgotten friend (see: part one and part two ), I’ll be going over the functions I use to make life easy.

Aliases are one of the core portions of Bash that will help you become more productive almost immediately.

In the name of meta-productivity, or improving productivity by improving process, I’ve come to learn and love Bash.

While building pyvcs and django-vcs over 4th of July weekend with Alex Gaynor [fn:0] , there were a few interesting lessons learned, mostly revolving around how setuptools works.

The EmacsVsVi wiki page on the PythonInfo wiki describes emacs as Among technically inclined UNIX*Linux users vi*vim tends to be preferred more by sysadmins while emacs/xemacs tends to be favored by programmers.

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