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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 [...]

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: [...]

Social networking is dying

It was yesterday when we talked with Magdalena about Facebook, anonymity and breaking up with social networking in general. In the past people were just switching from one social network to another when there was something new and cool coming up. Let’s say, a matter of a trend. The biggest “exodus” was probably the one [...]

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 [...]