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David Ziegler's Blog - Life Update

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David Ziegler's personal blog of computing, math, and other heroic achievements. It’s been a while since I’ve written here because my life has been pretty busy lately. Here’s the rundown:. I’m splitting my time between Palo Alto and Pittsburgh. Helen is doing a MS in product design at CMU. So I decided to move to Pittsburgh with her. Her program is only a year long, and we plan on moving back to the bay area in May. I’m still working full time at Mingle. I’ll be at Startup School. On Oct. 16th.

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David Ziegler's Blog - Codio Alpha Launch

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David Ziegler's personal blog of computing, math, and other heroic achievements. Hiring is one of those topics you constantly hear people gripe about. I’ve been on both sides of the fence and know how hard it is to find top talent and how frustrating it can be to get lost in a stack of resumes because you didn’t include the right buzz words and acronyms. And I are so excited about Codio that we’re leaving Mingle to work on it full time starting in November. Using the code ‘daveblog’. Ever...I'm a Python ...

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David Ziegler's Blog - Django-css is dead, long live Django Compressor

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David Ziegler's personal blog of computing, math, and other heroic achievements. Django-css is dead, long live Django Compressor. This announcement is long past due. When I originally forked django-css from django-compressor the Django landscape and state of django-compressor were very different. The main impetus for the fork was to be able to use CSS compilers and fix some outstanding bugs. Since then, django-compressor has been taken over and revitalized by Jannis Leidel. Load compress %} {% compress c...

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David Ziegler's Blog - django-urlcrypt

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David Ziegler's personal blog of computing, math, and other heroic achievements. And I just open sourced django-urlcrypt. A Django app for encrypting information in urls. The main use case for this is when you want to give a user a url that logs the user in, and redirects them to some url. For example if I want to email users a link that logs them in and sends them to http:/ www.davidziegler.net/inbox/,. Some desired properties of this url are that. Or in a template,. Basically it uses hmac. To create a ...

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David Ziegler's Blog - Some Common Django ORM Pitfalls

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David Ziegler's personal blog of computing, math, and other heroic achievements. Some Common Django ORM Pitfalls. For the most part, I like the Django ORM because it makes it easy to write reusable code that reads and writes from the database. I’ve found that the ORM can be a double edged sword though, as it sometimes becomes. Is a great article for that, so I won’t reiterate the points made in there. For the following examples, I’ll be using these models:. 1 book.author does a database query. Book = Boo...

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David Ziegler's Blog - Codio Now in Beta

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David Ziegler's personal blog of computing, math, and other heroic achievements. Codio Now in Beta. Is now in Beta! Http:/ blog.codio.com/codio-goes-beta. Things have been going pretty well so far. Since Chris is in San Francisco and I’m in Pittsburgh for the time being, we’ve been working on our own schedules and coordinating online. Pros of working in Pittsburgh: I don’t know anyone here, so there’s not much to distract me. All I do is code, work out, and sleep. Blog comments powered by Disqus.

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David Ziegler's Blog - Python Books

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David Ziegler's personal blog of computing, math, and other heroic achievements. My dad recently asked me for a good book to learn Python, causing my heart to swell with pride. I’m pretty sure the last programming language he learned was Fortran. Coincidentally I was asked not too long ago to review the books Python Multimedia. And MySQL for Python. When I’m done with Python Multimedia I’ll post a full review. Blog comments powered by Disqus. Follow me on Twitter. Davidziegler at gmail dot com.

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David Ziegler's Blog - Announcing django-cachebot

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David Ziegler's personal blog of computing, math, and other heroic achievements. Ldquo;There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things.” — Phil Karlton. Over the past couple weeks I’ve been working on a Django app to do automated caching and invalidation. The basic usage follows like this:. Photoobjects.cache().filter(user=user, status=2). Blog comments powered by Disqus. I'm a Python developer living in San Francisco and co-founder of Bronsoft. Page 1 of 1.

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David Ziegler's personal blog of computing, math, and other heroic achievements. Test Database Settings in Django. The problem is that if you’re not using sqlite, Django tests run incredibly slow. With sqlite, Django will use an in-memory database for testing that is an order of magnitude faster than mysql or postgresql. Create a file called settings test.py that contains:. And when running tests just do:. Python manage.py test - setting=settings test. The getFriends and getFollowers api methods in pytho...