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Posted
Tuesday July 22, 2008

Tagged
emacs, programming

3 comments

Mode-Aware Google Help in Emacs

While surfing the other night, I ran across a nice Emacs Lisp function for using Google to do context-sensitive help from inside Emacs. I liked how simple it was, and had always been curious about writing some Emacs lisp code (my .emacs file is a random collection of snippets I egregiously pilfered from various ...

Posted
Sunday December 3, 2006

Tagged
programming, python

10 comments

Why Python?

A number of people have asked me why I program in Python. There isn't a really short answer, except maybe "it suits me", so I thought I'd write my thoughts down to better explain how I got to this point. Background There is no best programming language, contrary to what some people ...

Posted
Tuesday September 5, 2006

Tagged
django, programming, python

12 comments

Getting Things Done, Django-style: Part 3

Update: I no longer have this project in my Subversion repository but have archived the project which you can download here. Note that this was written against Django 0.96 and a number of things have changed such as validators and manipulators (some assembly required). Its been a while since I wrote part 2 ...

Posted
Sunday July 30, 2006

Tagged
django, programming, python

3 comments

Getting Things Done, Django-style: Part 2

Update: I no longer have this project in my Subversion repository but have archived the project which you can download here. Note that this was written against Django 0.96 and a number of things have changed such as validators and manipulators (some assembly required). In the first part of this series I discussed ...

Posted
Monday July 3, 2006

Tagged
django, programming, python

12 comments

Page Stats Middleware

Some websites have a nice feature where they will show you a summary of the performance metrics measured during the generation of a page. I thought this would be a nice feature for some Django-based web applications I was developing at work. When a page takes a while to render, I like to quickly ...

Posted
Thursday May 11, 2006

Tagged
blog, django, programming, python

13 comments

Yet Another Django Blog

To help me learn Django, I decided to build a blog. It was surprisingly easy. This article walks through my initial version of the site. I've recently cutover from WordPress to a new blog which I developed using Django. I've been using Django at work for the past month and as I've gotten ...

Posted
Saturday May 7, 2005

Tagged
programming

30 comments

How Do I Copy Thee? Let Me Count the Ways

Over the years I've interviewed a lot of programmers and one of the questions I've always asked is for the candidate to implement the strcpy function. This article discusses why I asked this question, walks through the range of "solutions" I received, and takes a look back at what I learned about programmers from ...
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