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I’m told I’m not a very funny person. Nor is my writing of particular quality. However, after camping this domain name for the last eight years I’ve finally decided to do something useful (perhaps...
View ArticleRepository content moved to the blog
I have just finished moving all of my repository content to separate posts in WordPress. I also decided to get a little tricky and manually imported all of the old comments into WordPress too. Moving...
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Why I’ll never eBay again
I listed my old Macbook Pro 15″ laptop for sale on eBay today. I paid my fees. I reviewed my add. I was happy for about 6 minutes, until I received the following barrage of emails:...
View ArticleDealing with human readable network addresses
Let’s say we need to build a list of network addresses to whitelist access to a restricted area, or blacklist a troublesome spammer. It’s handy to be able to enter data in a variety of formats,...
View ArticleGetting up and running with virtualenv on Mac OSX Lion.
I recently purchased a new Macbook Air and had forgotten all of the various steps to get virtualenv up and running. Using the native Python packaged with OSX resulted in Could not call...
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Bulk package tracking for Australia Post with Google Docs
One of my companies sells animal onesies (buy one, because they are awesome), and it imports a good quantity of goods into Australia via EMS. I hunted around for a website that would let me instantly...
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Generating a directory listing from an S3 bucket
I was after a quick and easy way to generate a directory listing from an S3 bucket, but all of the scripts I found were horribly convoluted, and difficult to customise the resultant markup. With this...
View ArticleHow to containerize your Django application with Docker and fig on OSX
I’ve been hearing good things about Docker for a while now — and certainly the premise made a lot of sense. I develop on a Mac and deploy to Heroku so having my development environment match production...
View ArticleA strategy for static assets with Bower on Python/Django, Heroku and S3
The case for frontend package management is pretty strong. Once you’ve got jQuery, Bootstrap, half a dozen webcomponents and a few javascript libraries things are getting difficult to maintain and...
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