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Irrational Exuberance's Third Rebirth
03/27/2011 lifeflow(20)blog(8)sisyphus(3)The first Irrational Exuberance was a WordPress blog in 2007. The second a custom Django application, and the third... is also a custom Django application. Named Sisyphus.
How to Filter Bots From Analytics
04/03/2011 analytics(2)If you've ever built a homebrew analytics system and tried to get actionable insight from it, then you know the pain of filtering out automated and suspicious requests. Here are a few notes on what I've learned on filtering bots from analytics data.
Global Popularity of Programming Languages
08/14/2008I used Google Insights to look at the global search popularity for a dozen programming languages. Although I wasn't inspired with any particularly valuable insights, its still fairly interesting to see the distributions.
Custom Django Views for Happier Ajax
09/24/2008 django(73)javascript(18)jquery(6)This is the second part in the Django, jQuery & Ajax tutorial series, and takes a look at improving our first stab at Ajaxy functionality with something a bit... how shall we put it... less awful, by using custom Django views to respond to Ajax requests.
Python Default Parameter Value Gotchas
09/11/2010 python(48)Knowing when default parameter values are initialized can save you some pain. A lot of pain. A whole, whole lot of pain.
Don't Make Me Defend Your Claims
03/31/2011 usability(1)Recently I grabbed Steve Krug's "Don't Make Me Think" and found it a reasonable discussion to the topic. My one enduring frustration is that it is damningly faint on evidence.
Skew, The Frontend Engineer's Misery
04/28/2009 software-engineering(11)A look at the frontend engineer's primary pain point: product skew. While skew impacts everyone, it beats on the frontend engineer early and frequently. Think frontend engineer's have the easy half of engineering? Well, let's talk about that.
Teaching Adult English Classes
10/18/2007 japan(43)education(5)english(2)adult(1)A collection of my thoughts and advice from my English conversation lessons taught to an adult class. A handful of ideas on topics, and awkwardly generic recommendations.
Time to Load Redis Snapshots
08/23/2010 redis(5)Here are some quick notes on the time to load Redis snapshots, perhaps useful when investigating Redis as an architectural component.
Creating my Dream Server for Django
07/13/2007 django(73)ubuntu(4)slicehost(4)postgresql(4)memcache(3)Recently I redid my server to have a solid Django serving atmosphere: apache2, Python 2.5, memcached, lighttpd for serving static media. These are the cleaned up and formatted notes I used to guide myself through the installation process on my 256 meg SliceHost slice.
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