Archive for the ‘Tech’ Category
Since joining the Launchpad team my email has been flooded. I’ve always been pretty careful to keep my email clean and I’ve been a bit overwhelmed with all the new mailing lists. There are a bunch of people working on things, as you can imagine. So the email never stops. I’m still working on figuring [...]
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Tags: dovecot, email, imapfilter, mutt, offlineimap, sync
Coffee House Coders is moving Coffee House Coders has been meeting every Wed night for something near two years now. I’ve not been able to find the announcement for the first one. However, starting August 24th (note, that’s a week away, not in two days) we’ll make our first location move. Why? Well, as those [...]
Filed under: CHC, Code, Tech | 2 Comments
Tags: chc, coders, coffee, coffeehousecoders, development, social
Phew, another PyOhio has come and gone. This year was a great event. I can’t say enough good things about the group that puts it together. It’s really nice to have something somewhat local to head to every year. Talks: Data-Transfer Objects Are a Disease. Meet the cure. The first I went to on a [...]
Filed under: Bookie, Code, Python, Tech | 5 Comments
Ugggg, zombie day today as I attempt to get work done after a crazy PyOhio this year. Just like the last two this was a great regional conference I’m so glad that people put on. So congrats to the team for a 3rd year and some great stuff. The nice thing this year is that [...]
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Yay, Craig and I managed to get back on the lococast.net podcast train once I got back from my Vacation. It’s still a work in progress as we fight to try to keep our normal extended discussions down to a 30min podcast. This time I wanted to discuss the idea of the desktop os app [...]
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My shot at radio, lococast.net
I’ve always had a secret love affair with DJs on the radio. It seems like a pretty cool job until you realize that awful hours, pay, and crap you have to do to start out. In an effort to try to have some of that fun without changing careers I’ve joined forces with Craig Maloney [...]
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We’re all using ajax these days and one of the simple uses of ajax is to update or add some HTML content to a page. What often happens is that the same data is often display in a url/page of its own. So you might have a url /job/list and then you might want to [...]
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Tags: pylons, python
I really want to be a unit tester, I really do. Unfortunately it’s one of those things I can’t seem to get going. I start and end up falling short before I get over the initial setup hurdle. Or I get a couple of tests working, but then as I have a hard time trying [...]
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Tags: python, sqlalchemy, sqlalchemy-migrate, testing
Just a quick follow up to my last post on adding the ability to add some tools to help serialize SqlAlchemy instances. I needed to do the reverse. I want to take the POST’d values from a form submission and tack them onto one of my models. So I now also add a fromdict() method [...]
Filed under: Tech, Uncategorized | 2 Comments
Tags: python, sqlalchemy
I’m not a month into my new job. I’ve started working for a market research company here locally. Definitely new since I don’t know I’ve ever found myself really reading or talking about ‘market research’ before. In a way it’s a lot like my last job in advertising. You get in and there’s a whole [...]
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Tags: python, sqlalchemy
