Ed Crewe

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Introduction to Cloud Pricing I am looking forward to speaking at PyConLT 2025.

Why write an update?

The jump in interest rates to the highest level in over 20 years that hit in summer 2023 for the US, UK and many other countries is still impacting the Software industry.

The Current State of AI Software Generation The user tries to describe what they want generated in terms of a snippet of high level programming language code using standard English.

I work as a developer of a Cloud service, Big Animal - EDB's Cloud Postgres product.

I recently got a new job where I need to write a lot of Golang, so needed to learn it.

Do you work somewhere that has a lot of old shell scripts?

Here is a list of the ten core elements needed for a development to deployment phase infrastructure to provide a stable service for your web applications.

With the release of Django 1.7 it could be argued that the balance has finally tipped towards Python 3 being its preferred platform.

I am currently involved in the redevelopment of a survey creation tool, that is used by most of the UK University sector.

Last night I went to the second meeting of the Django Cardiff User Group.

Yes MegaMeet may have a slightly cheesey ring to it, but the Bristol IT MegaMeet was a lot of fun, and a great idea for a regional software community event.

django-cookieless Last week I released a new add on for django, django-cookieless, it was a relatively small feature that was required for a current project, and since it was such a generic package seemed ideal for open sourcing as a separate egg.

Being English I often tend to start a new conversation with the weather.

This week I had the opportunity to go to a couple of gatherings and deliver two python related talks.

In my day to day work, I haven't had an opportunity to use Google App Engine (GAE).

I am currently writing a permissions system for a Django based survey application and we wanted a nice clean implementation for testing users for appropriate permissions on the objects displayed on a page.