tmux

Posted: July 3rd, 2012 | Tags: , , | No Comments »

I’ve been meaning to move from the old standby of screen to tmux for the past getting an environment configured has been standing in the way: I’ve perfected my screen layout, and if I’m going to switch over, it needs to match. Everyone seems to accept that tmux has a more powerful/sane config language – and it does – but I’ve grown used to screen’s…eccentricities.

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Mock and Django

Posted: March 14th, 2012 | Tags: , , | No Comments »

I delivered this presentation on using the Mock library to the Toronto Django meetup. The slides should be pretty self-explanatory (once you hit slide #7 and are past the introduction); if not, check out the speaking notes.



SendGrid API tips

Posted: January 17th, 2012 | Tags: , , | No Comments »

I’ve recently been doing some work with SendGrid for sending transactional emails. They’re a great service, should be around for a while, and have super-friendly staff.

By and large, their API is well-documented. However in poking around and having various support chats, I’ve discovered the following under-documented things, some of which may be useful for someone else to know: