Paul Krugman:

1. The economy isn’t like an individual family that earns a certain amount and spends some other amount, with no relationship between the two. My spending is your …

After nearly 4 years of using a MacbookPro for all things internet, I’ve finally upgraded my home with a shiny new 27” iMac.

The new design is amazing, and …

A while ago I wrote a script to help manage gemsets and PATH settings when switching between Ruby projects. It has worked very well, but I’ve recently learned about …

Smashing Magazine has a good article today on the truth behind Search Engine Optimization “black magic.” It’s something I’ve been saying for years — SEO isn’t rocket science …

Creating a snappy user experience can be easily obtained by implementing HTML5 navigation. Not only does it take less time to render only the needed Django templates, the browser has …

With Republicans (even after a sweeping electoral defeat) demanding a strip-down of Social Security and other benefit programs, I think it is important for every American to reflect on why …

If you have a Gmail account (or a Google Apps account), you can use it to send mail on your behalf just like any other email client. Remember to use …

Just a quick note: when decorating Django tests you have to take care to name your return function using the same “test_” format otherwise an unmodified TestRunner will not discover …

The Python elite will probably turn their noses up at me, but I just conjured an even better looking way to write my tests.

Using my utilities.py file I …

Taking a lot of inspiration from Ruby’s RSpec, I’ve established a new way to write my tests when doing TDD in Django. Using django-nose, factoryboy, and a few …