Rockin’ the Djangos in Fresno
I just wanted to show everyone around. Our office is always changing, so here is the latest look:
The New Office Etiquette
The folks over at job-board site www.monster.com have shared 12 rules for the workplace regarding etiquette. Even though most employees know to follow these instinctively, an occasional refresher on the matter tends to be quite helpful. Some of the best-to-follow: Watch your language. Even if you work in a casual environment. Stay …
Stigmergy Is Magic
From Wikipedia: Stigmergy is a mechanism of indirect coordination between agents or actions.[1] The principle is that the trace left in the environment by an action stimulates the performance of a next action, by the same or a different agent. In that way, subsequent actions tend to reinforce and build on each other, leading to the spontaneous …
Automation Engine With Python
What’s interesting is that the word automation is so attractive, yet it seems to mean almost anything. It’s in danger of meaning nothing. But we all know there is something here and we won’t give up the search for a great automation tool! Personally I think the very best and …
Pitching Django To Your Manager
Luckily we run into people that have already made the decision to use Django even before calling in, but you might not be in that boat. How do you convince management to use Django in this case? Here are some strong points you can add to your case: 1. Django …
Be Ready for a Different Kind of Interview
The San Francisco Chronicle’s online presence at sfgate.com occasionally has some great career and job search advice. Most recently, one hit kind of close to home. I’d highly recommend going through the 25 Weird Interview Questions listed. They’re kind of the rage in the tech world now.
Awesome forms with django-crispy-forms
Django-crispy-forms is a third-party Django application which lets you create beautiful forms in “a very elegant and DRY way”. Best of all—you don’t need to code form templates unless you really want to. The resulting form markup, by default, is compatible with Twitter Bootstrap 2. If you want to use Bootstrap …
Tmux is a terminal multiplexer
When I started in web development, Gnome terminal and its tab interface were the tools I used for my terminal needs. We can say that web development and the terminal go hand in hand. As I progressed with web development I started using Guake, a top-down terminal that gives me a …
What More Can You Do With Zapier?
I think Zapier is a killer service. Also if you haven’t seen IFTTT you should do that. It’s kinda what like what Apple is to PC, IFTTT is to Zapier. Zapier is much more feature rich and has way more integrations, 250+. IFTTT calls them channels, and has 70 at …
Implementing A Rules Engine In Python
We have a couple options for implementing a rules engine in Python: we can roll our own, or we use an existing one. Regarding the first option, it seems a little pointless. If you don’t give a rule engine proper respect, you might believe Python is already a nearly complete rule engine, and …