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Learning by Teaching (a crash course in Backbone.js)
On Wednesday, the day after my lightning talk at the Django meetup, I gave a talk “An introduction to Backbone.js“, at a newly formed javascript meetup,…
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DBBUG lightning talks June 2012
On tuesday Potato Bristol hosted the Django Bristol and Bath User Group (DBBUG) lightning talks. It went really well and it was nice to have some…
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Web developer tools of the trade
I’ve had to change machines a few times recently, and each time I wish I had a decent checklist of what I need to be able…
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eatStatic demo site online
Shhh.. don’t tell anyone but i’ve quietly launched the eatStatic demo site, which now runs from the master branch of the github repo. This is still…
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Macbook air 13 inch as primary machine
When I first saw the macbook air I was awe-struck by it’s design and portability, and like many people I was wondering if it would be…
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eatStatic is Dead, long live eatStatic
I was pleased to see people recently enthusing on twitter about text-file based blog and CMS tools – nesta CMS, Kirby and scriptogr.am, as it validated…
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More text file based CMS and Blog tools
If you were interested in my eatStatic text file-based blog engine, but thought it was a bit techie/immature to consider using yourself, you may be interested…
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Mobile Claustrophobia
Just before xmas I installed the Path app out of curiosity, as I had noticed that a few of my friends were using it. It’s a…
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The life of a software engineer
I can’t remember where I saw this (twitter probably) a few weeks ago, but I can’t help laughing about this whenever I start a new project…
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The basics of git (or at least how i’ve been using it)
A while back I wrote about how I use subversion (SVN) version control as part of my workflow, when working alone and as part of a…
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2011 retrospective and plans for 2012
These retrospective posts are annoying aren’t they – kind of like the xmas round-robin letters?! However, I wanted to do one again, because it helps me…
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Notes on deplying django with virtualenv mod_wsgi and apache on ubuntu
As i’ve exclusively been using app engine in my day job at Potato, I haven’t yet had to deal with deploying a django site on my…