A few Django 1.1 functions someone may find useful. Project management django.utils.version.get_svn_revision def get_svn_revision(path=None): “”" Returns the SVN revision in the form SVN-XXXX, where XXXX is the revision number. Returns SVN-unknown if anything goes wrong, such as an unexpected format of internal SVN files. If path is provided, it should be a directory whose SVN [...]
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Being agile doesn’t mean being relaxed
Some people think that doing things “agile” means all you need is: a client that will never get pissed off, a set of loose requirements and eternity for development work. These people are wrong. If you think I’m lying, you belong to the same group of people, what implies that you’re wrong as well. As [...]
Imagine asynchronous world
The only thing I like about mobile phones, apart from letting me to be in touch with my friends and family, is Internet access and PIM functionality. And these are the only arguments that stop me from throwing away my SIM card. Do you like people entering your office and talking to you no matter [...]
Antonio Vivaldi’s Stabat Mater
I can hardly find any more inspiriting and mind-blowing music than sacral. That’s like Scottish Highlands in early morning mist. The kind of experience that keeps you shut up for the rest of the day. One of my latest discoveries I wish to share with you is Eia Mater, the seventh movement from Antonio Vivaldi’s [...]
RabbitMQ, Celery and Django
So why would you need a task queue? Let’s say you are building a Web application that is going to convert a fair amount of files (converting videos to Adobe Flash for instance). The other requirement is that a user must be notified when the video was converted and management tasks need to happen automatically: [...]
The only winning move is not to play
http://xkcd.com/601/
George Carlin: Plastic, assholes!
George Carlin – The Planet is Fine
Getting rid of Mac OS X crap in tarballs
A completely sane assumption would be that using GNU utility like tar should give you same results on a Mac or a linux distro. Wrong. What you end up with are all these tiny hidden files that shouldn’t be there. Mac OSX loves giving you extra stuff you don’t need. This is so called “Apple [...]
Ferrari and communism
Ironically, the first Ferrari showroom in Poland will be located in… Central Committee of the Communist Party building in Warsaw that was left by communists in 1990 after fall of the regime. That building is even more interesting, as the stock exchange market was reactivated in there in 1991. That’s what you call economic transition!