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Everything written by Daniel Roy Greenfeld for the past 18 years

• TIL: Finding and ignoring files with Glob
  How to find and ignore files and directories when using glob
  September 27, 2023
• TIL: Poetry PyPI Project URLS
  Adding sidebar links to PyPI projects powered by Poetry
  September 7, 2023
• TIL: pytest with breakpoints
  Injecting breakpoints into a failing pytest run
  September 6, 2023
• PyPI Project URLs Cheatsheet
  The PyPI project URLs spec is defined only in code. Here's my cheatsheet explaining how to configure them. I'll update this as I learn more (suggestions welcome!). Examples in several formats.
  August 4, 2023
• Review of Paultons Park
  A quick review of Paultons Park Amusement World near Southhamption from the vantage point of a parent of a four year old child.
  July 11, 2023
• BJJ Training Tips
  I started Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu in early November 2022. Against most other white belts I usually can't be submitted and have landed a few submissions of my own. I'm not big or strong so I use these rules given by my coaches and fellow players of the art.
  June 16, 2023
• Converting from bleach to nh3
  Bleach is deprecated, here's how to come close to replicating bleach.clean() with no arguments with nh3.
  June 9, 2023
• My 2023 Fitness Journey
  At the start of the year I had started to get back into shape. This article documents what I'm doing and how well it has gone.
  April 26, 2023
• AWS Requests Auth
  AWS signature version 4 signing process for the python requests module.
  April 20, 2023
• Cookiecutter Options Pattern
  A technique I've used for years yet often forget. Placing it here for easy reference.
  April 19, 2023
• Programming languages I've learned
  Starting as an adolescent I've been learning programming languages. Here's a list of the ones I've learned.
  February 24, 2023
• Converting Markdown Headers to Checklist
  For those times when you write out a long markdown document that you want to convert to a checklist.
  January 27, 2023
• Configuring Sphinx Auto-Doc with projects having Django dependencies
  How to make it so projects with Django as a dependency benefit from Sphinx's auto-documentation features.
  January 19, 2023
• Resolutions for 2023
  My resolutions for 2023
  January 15, 2023
• Practice Python Web Projects
  Python web projects taken from my personal history to practice on to improve your skills.
  January 14, 2023
• Two Years at Octopus Energy Group
  Various thoughts about working for a for-profit business with a mission of saving the planet.
  November 23, 2022
• Getting s3 pre-signed URLS using the Node.js AWS SDK v3
  An easy-to-find copy/pastable reference for creating pre-signed URLs for getting of files using the Node.js AWS SDK v3.
  June 18, 2022
• Farewell to Aaron & Company
  Aaron & Company was a plumbing supplies firm started by my great-grandfather over 100 years ago and incorporated in 1932. And now it is being sold.
  May 7, 2022
• Live Discussion with Sebastián Ramírez (Tiangolo)
  I have a friendly live discussion with Sebastián Ramírez, creator of FastAPI, Typer, SQL Model, and more.
  April 26, 2022
• Pip Installing Dependencies Into Conda Envs
  People think Conda is challenging to use or doesn't work with pip, when in truth it is easy and just works everywhere.
  March 11, 2022
• Blogger to Markdown Script
  Converting hundreds of posts from blogger to markdown
  February 25, 2022
• Sendowl Consolidation Script
  Unifying our sendowl accounts into one
  February 22, 2022
• More Married
  In honor of Valentine's Day, this script calculates how long you've been married (or other types of relationships) in relation to how long you've known each other
  February 14, 2022
• My Boss Took My Mouse Away
  A useful lesson taught to me at the outset of my career in an unnecessarily abusive way
  February 11, 2022
• Speaking at Python Web Conf
  My first public conference talk in three years
  February 10, 2022
• Autodocumenting Makefiles
  Make Your Makefiles Make Your Day!
  January 14, 2022
• Exploring the Bunch Class
  Bunch classes are very powerful, and with great power comes great responsibility
  October 11, 2021
• Blogging and Technical Writing
  Answers to questions I was asked recently about technical blog writing.
  September 15, 2021
• The Thirty Minute Rule
  What to do when you get stuck on a coding issue for more than 30 minutes.
  August 18, 2021
• Crusty European Bread
  A recipe to make tasty bread with a crust.
  August 8, 2021
• JavaScript Loops Are Fun!
  This tutorial is a cookbook of my favorite JavaScript looping techniques.
  August 1, 2021
• Growing Potatoes in Southern California
  What I've learned about growing and eating potatoes in a hot climate.
  July 4, 2021
• What's the Ultimate Reason for Working at Octopus Energy?
  Wherin I conclude my discussion about why I work at Octopus Energy.
  June 24, 2021
• What's the Best Thing about Working for Octopus Energy?
  An in-depth discussion about my employment at Octopus Energy.
  June 8, 2021
• Blog Revamp 2021
  May 23, 2021
• Switching between VS Code terminals using hotkeys
  By default VSCode doesn't include this keybinding. Here's how you add it.
  April 9, 2021
• Frontend Dev Resources
  A list of useful references for leveling up frontend development skills.
  March 26, 2021
• Git Cheatsheet
  My list of simple and complex git commands and operations.
  March 1, 2021
• Recap of 2020 and Resolutions for 2021
  January 29, 2021
• Improving Audio Recording with Streamlabs
  The resources I used to dramatically improve my audio.
  August 12, 2020
• August 2020 Courses
  All the live, online, interactive courses I'm teaching in the month of August 2020.
  August 11, 2020
• I'm Teaching A Live Online Django Crash Course
  July 2, 2020
• Django Slug + ID URL Design
  How to combine slugs and IDs to make a a human readable unique URL design.
  May 20, 2020
• Eulogy for My Father: Ted Greenfeld
  On June 11, 2019, my father, Theodore David Greenfeld, passed away at the age of 84. I spoke at his funeral three days later. It was some of the hardest words I've ever had to vocalize. I want to share what I said as well as some photos. Today would have been his 85th birthday.
  May 16, 2020
• Two Scoops of Django 3.x Released
  The book about best practices for the Django Web Framework, Two Scoops of Django, has been revised, updated, and expanded for versions 3.0, 3.1, and 3.2.
  May 11, 2020
• Adding Metadata to PDFs
  How to use Python to combine PDFs and then add metadata to them.
  February 28, 2020
• Our New Django Book Has Launched!
  We wrote a beginner-friendly tutorial book for Django!
  February 10, 2020
• Feed Generator
  Writing a Python script to generate my blog feed
  January 30, 2020
• Recap of 2019 and Resolutions for 2020
  This is my recap of 2019, plus my resolutions for 2020.
  January 9, 2020
• Thoughts on Kotlin
  My notes and impressions about this Android-friendly JVM language.
  November 7, 2019
• Meeting Python Devs in Cancun
  Python programming builds bridges across the world!
  October 30, 2019
• My Markdown Code Snippet Tester
  Ensuring that code in my articles actually works.
  October 15, 2019
• Moving to Vuepress
  Why and how I'm moving my blog to vuepress.
  October 14, 2019
• Ten Years Ago Today
  Musings ten years after I decided to take my life in a new direction.
  May 5, 2019
• Stop Using Executable Code Outside of Version Control
  Fighting the local_settings.py antipattern
  August 3, 2018
• Authenticating via JWT using Django, Axios, and Vue
  Getting DRF, JWT, Axios, and Vue to play nice
  April 21, 2018
• Writing A New Blog Engine
  Where I describe why and how I wrote a new blog engine
  March 29, 2018
• Implemementing Manual Schema with Django REST Framework
  Implementing a manual schema in Django REST Framework
  February 1, 2018
• When to Use MongoDB with Django
  Short answer is you don't use MongoDB with Django. Read on for the specifics.
  January 26, 2018
• Hola, PyCon Colombia!
  We're going to PyCon Colombia!
  January 19, 2018
• 2018 New Years Resolutions
  My New Year's resolutions for 2018.
  January 4, 2018
• Two Scoops of Django Birthday Giveaway
  My 2017 birthday giveaway contest.
  July 24, 2017
• Two Scoops of Django 1.11 Is Printed!
  July 13, 2017
• Using Python and Google Docs to Build Books
  Using Python to combine multiple Google docs into one cohesive whole that can be published as a book.
  May 15, 2017
• Python F-Strings Are Fun!
  April 27, 2017
• Two Scoops of Django 1.11 is Out!
  April 26, 2017
• The writing is finished on Siege I: The Reluctant Hero!
  March 10, 2017
• Siege: The First Chapter, Revised
  February 8, 2017
• 8000 Words!
  January 30, 2017
• No Person Is an Island
  January 26, 2017
• Power went out, but the writing went on!
  January 23, 2017
• Midnight Posting on Wednesday Night
  January 18, 2017
• Siege has 8 chapters!
  January 11, 2017
• Siege has five chapters!
  January 5, 2017
• Siege: The First Chapter
  January 1, 2017
• Code, Code, Code
  I'm often asked by new programmers how they can forge a path into using their skills professionally. Or how they can get better at writing software. In this article I share the secret master-level method to improvement.
  May 28, 2016
• Pretty Formatting JSON in the Django Admin
  May 26, 2016
• How To Create Installable, Reusable Django Packages
  November 20, 2015
• Intensive Django Training with the US Air Force
  November 3, 2015
• Titlecasing Markdown Headers with Python
  September 12, 2015
• My Birthday Gift to You
  July 22, 2015
• Why Doesn't Python Have Switch/Case?
  June 9, 2015
• Django Girls Ensenada 2015
  May 27, 2015
• Markup Language Faceoff: Lists
  May 14, 2015
• Two Scoops of Django 1.8 is Out!
  April 29, 2015
• My Latest Non-Fiction Book is Out
  April 28, 2015
• How to Read Kindle Books Without a Kindle Device
  April 15, 2015
• The Day I Clicked the Button
  March 29, 2015
• Punchline
  March 29, 2015
• Into the Brambles is Published!
  Wherin I discuss my first fiction book.
  March 28, 2015
• Phasing Out Django Packages APIv1 & APIv2
  March 1, 2015
• Setting up LaTeX on Mac OS X
  February 22, 2015
• Python Decorator Cheatsheet
  February 13, 2015
• Building Conda Packages for Multiple Operating Systems
  January 29, 2015
• Going off the grid
  December 22, 2014
• I did an Au Batido in 2014, now what?
  December 20, 2014
• setup.py tricks
  December 19, 2014
• Rainy Sunday in Buenos Aires
  November 3, 2014
• Homemade Pumpkin Puree
  How I make the base for pies and other yummy concoctions.
  October 24, 2014
• Adding Django form instance attributes
  Sometimes in the `clean()`, `clean_FOO` or `save()` methods of a Django form, you need to have additional form instance attributes available. A sample case for this is having `user_id` available. This is a simple example of how to do it in Class-Based Views.
  September 15, 2014
• Announcing BarCamp Django SF!
  September 12, 2014
• Hola, Argentina!
  August 13, 2014
• Want to work for Eventbrite?
  July 23, 2014
• Want to work for Eventbrite? (part 2)
  July 23, 2014
• Building, Maintaining and Scaling Projects
  July 15, 2014
• cached-property: Don't copy/paste code
  July 1, 2014
• Jinja2 Quick Load Function
  June 12, 2014
• Python Partials are Fun!
  April 24, 2014
• Beginner's Guide to PyCon 2015
  April 5, 2014
• Surgery in Two Days
  April 2, 2014
• First Post
  April 2, 2014
• Two Scoops of Goblins
  April 1, 2014
• Memories of Malcolm
  March 17, 2014
• Docstrings and Various Python Objects
  March 5, 2014
• Fiction vs Non-Fiction
  February 24, 2014
• Announcing Two Scoops of Django 1.6!
  February 5, 2014
• awesome-slugify: Human-readable URL slugs from any string (part 2)
  January 22, 2014
• awesome-slugify: Human-readable URL slugs from any string
  January 21, 2014
• pytest: no-boilerplate testing (part 3)
  January 17, 2014
• pytest: no-boilerplate testing (part 2)
  January 16, 2014
• pytest: no-boilerplate testing
  January 15, 2014
• I Married Audrey Roy
  The story of one of the best days of my life.
  January 4, 2014
• New Year's Resolutions for 2014
  January 1, 2014
• Cookiecutter: Project Templates Made Easy
  Cookiecutter makes creating and maintaining project templates easy and intuitive.
  2013-8-17
• Made Up Statistics
  2013-7-26
• Travel Tips for Geeks: Preventing Theft
  2013-7-18
• My experiences with Django and Python 3
  2013-7-11
• EuroPython Intro to Django Workshop
  2013-7-01
• Core Concepts of Django ModelForms
  The concepts behind Django's model forms can be boiled down to six items.
  2013-6-13
• Tools we used to write Two Scoops of Django
  2013-5-03
• Filepicker.io and South
  2013-4-23
• Off to Europe!
  2013-4-20
• Two Scoops of Django is in print!
  2013-4-17
• Generating NCX files with Python
  2013-4-15
• Annotated History of My Most Used Shell Commands
  2013-4-10
• Fixing Python's String class
  2013-4-01
• Core Concepts of Django Forms
  The concepts behind Django's non-model forms can be listed in just three items.
  2013-3-29
• Overloading Django Form Fields
  How to overload Django form fields in an extensible way.
  2013-3-27
• New Year's Meme 2013
  December 31, 2013
• Exceptions as Decorator Arguments
  December 24, 2013
• Python Indie Bundle Cyber Monday Sale
  December 2, 2013
• Python Yields are Fun!
  November 22, 2013
• Dynov 2013 Part I
  September 9, 2013
• Travel Tips for Geeks: Traveling Cheaply
  August 5, 2013
• The Easy Form Views Pattern Controversy
  May 10, 2013
• PyCon Tutorial: Wiring Up Django Packages
  2013-03-8
• Beginner's Guide to PyCon 2013 Part III
  March 10, 2013
• We are not using PayPal
  March 2, 2013
• Two Scoops of Django 1.5 Beta Released
  February 28, 2013
• Beginner's Guide to PyCon 2013 Part II
  January 23, 2013
• Beginner's Guide to PyCon 2013 Part I
  January 22, 2013
• Two Scoops of Django FAQ
  January 21, 2013
• Our Django Book Has Launched
  January 17, 2013
• New Year's Resolutions for 2013
  December 31, 2012
• 2012 resolution summary
  December 30, 2012
• New Year's Python Meme 2012
  December 28, 2012
• Result of our LA Migration Hackathon submission
  December 9, 2012
• Developer Time
  December 4, 2012
• Stay with the Django CBV defaults!
  November 27, 2012
• Thoughts on ranting
  November 26, 2012
• Case Study: URL Design for petcheatsheets.com
  November 21, 2012
• Django GetOrCreateView
  Probably the first article outside the official docs on how to use the Django CBV form_valid method. Written in 2012 and still accurate in 2023!
  October 16, 2012
• Los Angeles Open Source Sprint on Nov 4th!
  October 14, 2012
• We need more PyCon US 2013 submissions!
  September 27, 2012
• Thoughts on my stack
  September 4, 2012
• Installing Pycairo on Mountain Lion
  September 4, 2012
• Python dictionary as a class
  September 1, 2012
• PyCon 2013 Talks/Tutorials I want to see
  August 20, 2012
• A Public Service Message to the Python Community
  August 20, 2012
• Python dictionary vs JavaScript object: Dynamic Keys
  August 19, 2012
• Django Requirements 2012-08-15
  August 15, 2012
• Curiosity has landed!
  August 6, 2012
• Deadline for DjangoCon Financial Aid requests is tomorrow!
  August 2, 2012
• Attaching custom exceptions to functions and classes
  August 2, 2012
• Django Update View Without Slug in the URL
  July 28, 2012
• July 15th, 2012 LA Open Source Recap
  July 16, 2012
• Simple HTTP Basic Auth Wall
  July 9, 2012
• PyCon Philippines 2012 Day 2
  A wonderful end to a wonderful event.
  July 5, 2012
• PyCon Philippines 2012 Day 1
  The first day of the first PyCon Philippines!
  July 3, 2012
• Announcing PyCon Philippines!
  June 9, 2012
• Django Class Based View: email form with CAPTCHA
  May 23, 2012
• Simple Django email form using CBV
  May 22, 2012
• May 12th, 2012 LA Open Source Recap
  May 21, 2012
• 10 reasons to go to DjangoCon Europe
  May 14, 2012
• CSS Hacking to make my code samples legible
  May 11, 2012
• Choosing an API framework for Django
  May 10, 2012
• Django Requirements for a project
  May 9, 2012
• Los Angeles Open Source Sprint on May 12th!
  May 1, 2012
• Join us at DjangoCon Europe!
  April 10, 2012
• Choosing a new python based blog engine
  April 5, 2012
• Calendar About Nothing
  March 28, 2012
• Launching our API at PyCon 2012
  March 9, 2012
• The sorry state of Python OAuth providers
  March 5, 2012
• You should Heroku
  February 28, 2012
• I use this
  February 25, 2012
• PyCon Australia 2011 Review
  February 24, 2012
• My PyCon 2012 Schedule
  February 22, 2012
• Selected for PyCon StartUp Row
  February 21, 2012
• Parsing MongoDB URI
  February 20, 2012
• My blog is moved
  February 19, 2012
• django-uni-form end of life
  February 18, 2012
• Two years ago today
  February 17, 2012
• Two years ago today
  February 17, 2012
• Silicon Beach Hackercast
  An attempt made long ago to create a podcast
  February 16, 2012
• Working on the Aú sem Mão
  February 13, 2012
• Capoeira at PyCon!
  February 12, 2012
• Looking to move off blogger again
  February 10, 2012
• Tried out Jekyll
  February 9, 2012
• Python Web Summit Questions needed!
  February 9, 2012
• Why I like Capoeira
  February 8, 2012
• How to justify attending PyCon sprints
  January 25, 2012
• Join the PyCon Early Birds program!
  January 23, 2012
• Tips for speaking
  January 21, 2012
• My SOPA boycott
  January 18, 2012
• Resolutions for 2012
  December 29, 2011
• 2011 Resolution Summary
  December 28, 2011
• New Year’s Python Meme
  December 23, 2011
• Evaluating which package to use
  December 17, 2011
• Announcing Consumer Notebook!
  December 16, 2011
• My BaseModel
  December 9, 2011
• Made Up Statistics
  December 7, 2011
• The Story of Live-Noting
  December 5, 2011
• Redux: Python Things I Don't Like
  November 4, 2011
• Loving the bunch class
  November 2, 2011
• PyCodeConf 2011 Report
  October 14, 2011
• Conference Talks I want to see
  October 9, 2011
• Profiles: Breaking Normalization
  How my Django profile models looked over 10 years ago.
  September 23, 2011
• History of my most used shell commands
  September 14, 2011
• Quick conferences report: Presentations
  September 14, 2011
• Responses to Github is my resume
  September 4, 2011
• Github is my resume
  August 23, 2011
• The Ultimate Django Tutorial Workshop
  July 31, 2011
• Amtrak Review
  July 18, 2011
• Python and Django class/hackathon!
  July 18, 2011
• Normalization noitazilamroN
  July 12, 2011
• I'm going to Pycon Australia!
  June 29, 2011
• Hollywood Hackathon Report
  June 28, 2011
• Do not upload dev releases at PyPI
  June 25, 2011
• Announcing django-uni-form 0.8.0 beta!
  June 24, 2011
• Hollywood Hackathon on June 18th!
  June 12, 2011
• Python HTTP Requests for Humans
  May 26, 2011
• I love this girl!
  May 23, 2011
• A couple great Pycon 2011 Talks
  May 19, 2011
• We won first place at Startup Camp LA!
  April 25, 2011
• I teach Python and Django
  April 22, 2011
• How NOT to interview Pythonistas
  April 17, 2011
• Are you looking for Python and Django Work?
  April 9, 2011
• Python Packages sprint on Sunday 4/10/2011
  April 6, 2011
• PyCon 2011 Sprint Report
  April 5, 2011
• Announcing Garbaginator!
  April 1, 2011
• PyCon 2011 Tutorial Report
  March 25, 2011
• I'll get you next time, Wesley Chun!
  March 24, 2011
• The Great PyCon Ribbon Game!
  March 9, 2011
• My tips for speaking
  February 26, 2011
• My Django tutorial at PyCon
  February 17, 2011
• My Pinax Solutions class at Pycon 2011
  February 14, 2011
• How to sell Python panel at Pycon
  February 12, 2011
• What I want for Django Facebook connect
  January 31, 2011
• Los Angeles Open Source Hackathon
  January 26, 2011
• Why you should go to Pycon
  January 20, 2011
• January Mongo LA conference
  January 15, 2011
• Pinax Tutorial at Pycon 2011
  January 11, 2011
• I don't work in a vacuum
  January 6, 2011
• Resolutions for 2011
  December 31, 2010
• Recap of 2010
  December 30, 2010
• 2010 Resolution Summary
  December 30, 2010
• Reactions to "Stupid Template Languages"
  December 6, 2010
• Stupid Template Languages
  December 3, 2010
• Release classifiers in distutils/pypi
  November 6, 2010
• A request for new pypi classifiers
  November 6, 2010
• DjangoCon 2010 report I
  September 22, 2010
• New features for Django Packages
  August 29, 2010
• Django Dash Lessons Learned
  August 21, 2010
• Announcing Django Packages!
  August 17, 2010
• More reasons to go to DjangoCon!
  August 8, 2010
• Getting excited about DjangoCon US!
  August 7, 2010
• Rainbows on the prairie
  July 30, 2010
• Getting piston forms to play nicely with JSON
  July 16, 2010
• I want to talk to Jython and Iron Python developers
  July 9, 2010
• Apologies to the Python community
  June 29, 2010
• I hate Mac & Cheese
  June 29, 2010
• My little unit test trick
  June 9, 2010
• Using modernizr to help with canvas
  May 11, 2010
• Code highlighting on blogger
  May 11, 2010
• Steve Holden giving a talk on Python education
  May 7, 2010
• Moving away from DC
  April 23, 2010
• Leaving NASA
  March 21, 2010
• Pycon 2010 report III: Sprints
  March 5, 2010
• Conferences are a double edged sword
  March 3, 2010
• Apologies to Katie
  March 2, 2010
• Pycon 2010 report II
  March 1, 2010
• Pycon 2010 report I
  February 24, 2010
• I've got ribbons!
  February 18, 2010
• Eating my own Dog Food
  February 10, 2010
• How I write my presentations
  February 4, 2010
• What I don't like about Pycon
  January 28, 2010
• My pre-history with Plone
  January 21, 2010
• Learn something new every year
  January 14, 2010
• Reserve your low pycon price today!
  January 5, 2010
• Register for Pycon 2010 already!
  January 5, 2010
• DjangoCon 2009 videos are up!
  January 3, 2010
• Resolutions for 2010
  January 1, 2010
• There was a day...
  December 29, 2009
• New Year's Python meme
  December 29, 2009
• 2009 resolution summary
  December 27, 2009
• Recap of 2009
  December 27, 2009
• Reconnecting
  November 13, 2009
• Picking a Django powered CMS
  November 12, 2009
• Python Wars
  November 11, 2009
• Code I'll reuse
  November 10, 2009
• What I love about Python
  November 9, 2009
• Eating your own dogfood
  November 8, 2009
• Foxpro
  November 6, 2009
• Crashing is fun
  November 5, 2009
• Pycon talks and tutorials
  November 3, 2009
• November Django Lunch Meetup was fun!
  November 2, 2009
• Posting every day this month
  November 2, 2009
• Sys Admins: What your Developers want you to know
  October 9, 2009
• Have you signed up for the Django Master Class?
  October 7, 2009
• Djangonaut Lunch in Crystal City
  September 30, 2009
• Something I learned at DjangoCon
  September 29, 2009
• Looking for work?
  September 22, 2009
• Pycon talk thoughts
  September 20, 2009
• Slides from DjangoCon 2009
  September 18, 2009
• Pycon talk proposal reminder
  September 16, 2009
• Show me your open source Django CMS
  September 16, 2009
• Best DjangoCon 2009 Day Ever!
  September 10, 2009
• See you at DjangoCon!
  September 5, 2009
• All set to go to Portland, Oregon!
  September 5, 2009
• I want to give a class or talk at Pycon 2010
  September 2, 2009
• NOVA-DUG August 19th summary
  August 20, 2009
• NOVA-DUG meeting notice for August 19th
  August 14, 2009
• NOVA-DUG scheduling
  August 12, 2009
• Clothing triage
  July 20, 2009
• Turning away from CAPTCHA
  July 17, 2009
• Report on the belt test
  July 13, 2009
• Taking the test tomorrow!
  July 10, 2009
• NOVA-DUG meeting notice for July 8th
  July 8, 2009
• Belt test update
  July 8, 2009
• Belt test this Friday!
  July 6, 2009
• Still sick
  July 6, 2009
• Quitting Caffeine Fail
  July 2, 2009
• Training Schedule
  July 1, 2009
• What happened to NOVA-DUG?
  June 24, 2009
• Thanks for San Francisco Link
  June 19, 2009
• Thanks for San Francisco!
  June 19, 2009
• What I managed to get done in San Francisco
  June 9, 2009
• My San Francisco Day Plans
  May 31, 2009
• I don't like Integrated Development Environments
  May 29, 2009
• ColdFusion and deprecated code
  May 25, 2009
• Eight things I don't like about python
  May 20, 2009
• Help me make a new Avatar!
  May 11, 2009
• Quitting Caffeine
  May 11, 2009
• DC Sprints location is changed!
  May 7, 2009
• DC sprints location is official!
  May 6, 2009
• NOVA-DUG April 29th summary
  April 30, 2009
• NOVA-DUG meetup for Wed, April 29th
  April 23, 2009
• Sweet spots of Plone
  April 22, 2009
• Finger method of judging graphic design
  April 20, 2009
• What I learned at Pycon 2009
  April 17, 2009
• NOVA-DUG April 15th summary
  April 16, 2009
• Show me your open source Django blog application
  April 9, 2009
• NOVA-DUG meeting on Wednesday, April 15th, at 7:30 pm
  April 8, 2009
• The end of my Feedfeeder story
  April 8, 2009
• What I would change in Plone: Generic Setup
  April 6, 2009
• Northern Virginia Django Users Group lives!
  April 5, 2009
• Django Dash worst concept contest
  April 5, 2009
• Jinja2 in zope
  April 4, 2009
• What I would change in Plone: Templates
  April 3, 2009
• Forming a Northern Virginia Django User Group
  April 3, 2009
• Changing over to .NET
  April 1, 2009
• Day 3 Pycon-09 talks I'm attending
  March 29, 2009
• Best Pycon 2009 Day Ever!
  March 29, 2009
• Day 2 Pycon-09 talks I'm attending
  March 28, 2009
• Day 1 Pycon-09 talks I'm attending
  March 27, 2009
• Pycon Tutorials attended by me
  March 24, 2009
• Heading off to Pycon 2009!
  March 24, 2009
• Looking for work?
  March 5, 2009
• Naming conventions thoughts for Pinax and Django
  February 19, 2009
• Spacebook ITCD demo a success!
  February 12, 2009
• Should django-uni-form handle boilerplate HTML?
  February 11, 2009
• Tell me your Plone blogging tool preferences
  February 2, 2009
• Strangeness on Planet Plone
  January 28, 2009
• Starting a new Plone project in February
  January 28, 2009
• US Pycon 2009 registration is open!
  January 28, 2009
• Awesome Mac command-line trick of the day
  January 25, 2009
• Second Annual President's Day Sprint
  January 19, 2009
• My current training schedule
  January 16, 2009
• How to do well at the job
  January 14, 2009
• Simplegraph Screen Capture
  January 13, 2009
• django-uni-form lives!
  January 12, 2009
• Python formatting test
  January 9, 2009
• Memories of New Year's by the decade
  January 7, 2009
• How to globally ignore .pyc files
  January 5, 2009
• Made leaving comments on this blog easier.
  January 5, 2009
• Useful python code for blogspot users like me
  January 5, 2009
• Resolutions for 2009
  December 31, 2008
• 2008 Resolutions Summary
  December 31, 2008
• Recap of 2008
  December 29, 2008
• I wish we were having a holiday party at the gym
  December 17, 2008
• Looking under the hood of Pinax
  December 17, 2008
• 2009 Saturday class schedule is formally confirmed!
  December 12, 2008
• Training notes
  December 11, 2008
• My saturday class plans for 2009
  December 2, 2008
• Deployment skills need work
  November 30, 2008
• Danny's recipe for pumpkin pie
  November 24, 2008
• Current plan for FeedFeeder v2
  November 24, 2008
• Second place in my second tournament
  November 17, 2008
• Steel jewelry is in!
  November 16, 2008
• Subscribers Zope 3 style
  November 14, 2008
• Why I'm not competing in sparring right now
  November 13, 2008
• Cat Vacuuming Society
  November 7, 2008
• What I want to see in the next four years
  November 6, 2008
• The first effort I made in a TKD competition
  November 2, 2008
• Weekend competition information for me
  October 30, 2008
• Training failures
  October 29, 2008
• Quick update
  October 28, 2008
• Morning brainstorm about FeedFeeder v2
  October 22, 2008
• The temptation is very strong...
  October 20, 2008
• FeedFeeder 2 plan
  October 20, 2008
• Normalization, Non-Normalization, Denormalization
  October 20, 2008
• Compiling Python on Mac OS X 10.5 can be a pain
  October 16, 2008
• End of the conference
  October 15, 2008
• Can't seem to use zope debug mode anymore.
  October 14, 2008
• Help me with zc.testbrowser
  October 12, 2008
• Day 2 of the 2008 Plone Conference
  October 11, 2008
• Day 1 of the 2008 Plone Conference
  October 9, 2008
• Start of the Conference
  October 6, 2008
• Plone Conference 2008 starts tomorrow!
  October 5, 2008
• 362 days ago I was off to Italy
  October 5, 2008
• Why did we use Plone for nasascience.nasa.gov?
  October 1, 2008
• Our payment obligation?
  September 23, 2008
• Vacation this fall, winter, or spring? Or not...
  September 22, 2008
• Farewell to Michael Hammer
  September 18, 2008
• Antipatterns I see here and there
  September 17, 2008
• Plone OS projects take two: Radius package and FeedFeeder package
  September 15, 2008
• Best career technology choice I ever made besides learning python...
  September 13, 2008
• Some ideas for open source Plone Products
  September 12, 2008
• List of programming languages I know
  September 9, 2008
• Don't bet on closed source third party software!
  September 8, 2008
• I've not quite done LAMP, or have I?
  September 7, 2008
• Nixed Technorati link off this blog
  September 6, 2008
• Prayers to Jessica and family
  August 28, 2008
• Thoughts on Python interfaces
  August 27, 2008
• Moving major appliances
  August 25, 2008
• Fitness update
  August 22, 2008
• Pluggable Authentication System for Plone
  August 15, 2008
• Taught my son yesterday
  August 13, 2008
• NYC century bike ride
  August 11, 2008
• I missed a class taught by Lennert Regebro?
  August 9, 2008
• Trials and Tribulations of avoiding vi
  August 6, 2008
• Another reason to dislike P.F. Changs
  August 1, 2008
• Funkload to be revisited!
  July 31, 2008
• Barack Obama versus John McCain
  July 30, 2008
• Coming up on my week off!
  July 18, 2008
• wxPython is fun!
  July 17, 2008
• Ready for boot camp!
  July 11, 2008
• Working on the fatigue issue
  July 10, 2008
• Me Grok generate Add and Edit forms!
  July 8, 2008
• Exhausted for no reason
  July 2, 2008
• July should be fun
  June 30, 2008
• Me Grok Smash!
  June 30, 2008
• Beware Documentation By Topic
  June 27, 2008
• Quick Firefox 3 review
  June 24, 2008
• Ruby Security Problems
  June 23, 2008
• My students take the big test
  June 18, 2008
• Umlizer lives!
  June 15, 2008
• Should I write a book?
  June 11, 2008
• Cycling in this heat
  June 10, 2008
• New water heater
  June 6, 2008
• MVC public service videos
  June 5, 2008
• Condolences to the Hammers
  June 3, 2008
• Must use ubigraph
  June 3, 2008
• How not to build a view
  June 2, 2008
• Inheritence is fun!
  May 30, 2008
• Visit the Greater Lipsum Project at your own peril
  May 29, 2008
• Genius will be rewarded
  May 28, 2008
• Phoenix
  May 26, 2008
• Phoenix is down safely!
  May 26, 2008
• To Shell is to love Python
  May 26, 2008
• Italia and Escher
  May 20, 2008
• Apologies to Chris
  May 20, 2008
• I love graphing
  May 19, 2008
• Flooding sucks
  May 12, 2008
• NYC cycling ride part 1
  May 12, 2008
• The problem with comparing Pylons to Django
  May 9, 2008
• Best NYC trip ever!
  May 6, 2008
• I want to get busy!
  April 29, 2008
• More stupid stuff about my health
  April 28, 2008
• Feedparser does not work with Google App Engine
  April 27, 2008
• Day after the hospital
  April 24, 2008
• What I want in a feed aggregator
  April 24, 2008
• My trip to the hospital
  April 24, 2008
• Suggest to me a feed aggregator!
  April 23, 2008
• An Engineer's Guide to Cats
  April 23, 2008
• Pesach and tradition
  April 21, 2008
• Import Soul
  April 21, 2008
• Comments made easier!
  April 18, 2008
• Sick but Ubuntu
  April 18, 2008
• Status of NASA Science
  April 15, 2008
• Oops... forgot RSS feed
  April 14, 2008
• Zed Shaw, YAML, Python Community
  April 11, 2008
• Overview of NASA Science
  April 11, 2008
• So what did I do on the website?
  April 11, 2008
• History of my most used shell commands
  April 10, 2008
• 321 LiftOff!!!
  April 10, 2008
• Our NASA Plone project launches
  April 10, 2008
• Next time I'll read the label
  April 8, 2008
• This looks interesting...
  April 8, 2008
• Issues with zope.formlib
  April 4, 2008
• I got a job at McDonalds!
  April 1, 2008
• Reality Graph
  March 28, 2008
• Ramping up the excercise
  March 26, 2008
• Need better charting for Python
  March 26, 2008
• meeting plone friends at pycon
  2008-03-24t10:49:00.003-07:00
• 10th Wedding Anniversary
  March 24, 2008
• Django at Pycon
  March 24, 2008
• Pycon Wrapup
  March 24, 2008
• First side consulting project hits the world!
  March 18, 2008
• I contribute to Python
  March 15, 2008
• A fanboy at Pycon 2008
  March 15, 2008
• Flickr woe
  March 15, 2008
• Finally, good food!
  March 15, 2008
• The food of Pycon 2008
  March 14, 2008
• Zed Shaw and me
  March 14, 2008
• First day of Pycon 2008 - The Tutorials!
  March 14, 2008
• Numpy Tutorial overview
  March 14, 2008
• My first day in Chicago
  March 14, 2008
• Another hour of waiting for my flight
  March 12, 2008
• On my way to Chicago and Pycon 2008!
  March 12, 2008
• 2 days until Pycon and Chicago
  March 11, 2008
• Replacing a legacy CMS with Plone
  March 10, 2008
• Open source makes the world better
  March 7, 2008
• Pycon/Chicago ho!
  March 6, 2008
• Django fun
  March 6, 2008
• Gary Gygax passed away
  March 5, 2008
• Pycon
  March 4, 2008
• Pycon 2008 travel update
  March 4, 2008
• Working from Panera today
  March 2, 2008
• Mistakes not to make again
  March 1, 2008
• Pycon
  February 27, 2008
• Pycon 2008!
  February 27, 2008
• Working with ATTopics
  February 27, 2008
• Memorial Mass for my Uncle
  Saying farewell to my father's brother
  February 26, 2008
• I want an Asus eee pc
  February 26, 2008
• Sprint!
  February 24, 2008
• Insomnia again
  February 21, 2008
• I grok viewlets in Plone 3
  February 21, 2008
• Work things
  February 21, 2008
• Zope 3 Third Edition is in my hand!
  February 20, 2008
• My Zope 3 book is almost here!
  February 19, 2008
• The weekend
  February 19, 2008
• Plone 3 drives me to drink!
  February 18, 2008
• Ditching Funkload
  February 14, 2008
• Me being snarky
  There was a time when I was snobby about what I did, this post does not reflect my current attitude
  February 12, 2008
• Plone Confessional
  February 12, 2008
• Plone 3 fun
  February 11, 2008
• Funkload + Matplotlib = charts!
  February 11, 2008
• Funkload Charting woes
  February 8, 2008
• Sorting by dates in Plone tables
  February 7, 2008
• Supplementary views in Plone
  February 6, 2008
• Litigating reality
  February 6, 2008
• SVN Versionator is dead
  February 4, 2008
• Hrm...
  January 31, 2008
• Gym things
  January 30, 2008
• More on SVN Versionator
  January 25, 2008
• SVN versionator!
  January 24, 2008
• New Grok site!
  January 24, 2008
• Baby news
  January 10, 2008
• Reason #4293 why I'm happy to be out of ColdFusion
  January 10, 2008
• Python is the programming language of 2007!
  January 9, 2008
• The hard truth about Python
  January 7, 2008
• Playing with Trac, SVN, Apache, and LDAP
  December 13, 2007
• My human rights are violated!
  December 11, 2007
• import antigravity
  December 5, 2007
• Capturing shell output in Python
  November 29, 2007
• How fast can I convert a Zope 3 app to Grok?
  November 26, 2007
• Complexity added to Plone 3
  November 26, 2007
• Playing with Django
  November 23, 2007
• Happy Thanksgiving!
  November 22, 2007
• RIA arguments
  November 20, 2007
• Need to get into the habit of using Python sets
  November 16, 2007
• Adding a new user at the root of Plone/Zope 2 programmatically
  November 13, 2007
• What do you do when zope.Public refuses to be Public?
  November 13, 2007
• How do I deploy development code with buildout?
  November 9, 2007
• Zope 3 Security
  November 9, 2007
• New blog format
  November 8, 2007
• Plone lets you import/export workflows!
  November 7, 2007
• Pylons vs Django
  November 7, 2007
• ZPUG-DC Report 2007/11/07
  November 7, 2007
• Head meets desk
  November 5, 2007
• I grok Zope 3!
  November 1, 2007
• More Italy pictures coming!
  October 31, 2007
• What is a real language?
  Thoughts back in the day when
  October 29, 2007
• Danny the Tourist
  October 18, 2007
• Monday and Tuesday
  October 18, 2007
• My plan for tomorrow
  October 15, 2007
• Maybe my last post
  October 15, 2007
• Sunday Funday
  Another lovely day in Italia! Well, it would have been lovely but the temperature was rather low.
  October 15, 2007
• Saturday Bleahs
  October 15, 2007
• Handy code snippet
  October 14, 2007
• Friday in Italia!
  October 14, 2007
• The morning after a friday...
  October 13, 2007
• Thursday in Italia
  October 12, 2007
• I'm so busy
  October 12, 2007
• KSS or Plone4Artists sprint choice
  October 11, 2007
• A note of thanks
  October 11, 2007
• Technorati Fun
  October 11, 2007
• Mercoledi dentra Italia
  October 11, 2007
• Top 5 Design Tips for Skinning Plone
  October 10, 2007
• Martedi dentro Italia
  October 10, 2007
• Required methods to make a class iterable
  October 9, 2007
• Second Day in Italy
  October 9, 2007
• Italia picture set
  October 8, 2007
• Italia!
  October 8, 2007
• I'm in England!
  October 7, 2007
• First minutes of the day
  October 6, 2007
• Case sensitive search in Zope 2.9.7
  October 5, 2007
• Interesting...
  October 3, 2007
• Can I be a bit snarky here?
  September 28, 2007
• Supersizing YouTube
  September 28, 2007
• Python Tips ahoy!
  September 18, 2007
• Lambdas no more
  July 31, 2007
• TurboGears merges with Pylons
  July 30, 2007
• Psuedo Code to Real Code
  July 25, 2007
• Playing with Catalog brains
  July 13, 2007
• A thought on methods in Plone
  June 12, 2007
• Plone Introspection
  June 4, 2007
• Image of the Day 'extension' of FeedFeeder experience
  May 25, 2007
• Interfaces in Zope 3 and Five
  May 23, 2007
• Beautiful Soup is Beautiful
  May 16, 2007
• The Dark Side begins its seduction...
  May 9, 2007
• JSON and Python
  May 8, 2007
• Goodbye Uncle Alex
  The passing of my father's brother
  January 3, 2007
• Stories About Family
  Writing down stories about my family
  September 3, 2005