Marc Abramowitz

Note to self: Don’t name my git branches “tests”

I have sometimes had a git branch called "tests" because I was adding tests or working on tests. The problem is that many projects have a "tests" directory so if you have a "test" branch, you get this: $ git diff tests fatal:...

General

Plone and Zope time

Doing my yearly ritual of looking at Plone & Zope and making sure I still don't grok them. Check. In this year's installment, I set up a little Plone site and actually got as far as creating a custom content type. I started down...

ProgrammingPython

Continuation of mod_wsgi setup

My previous setup worked until I wanted to add another Django instance and then it didn't work, because I had two WSGIScriptAlias entries under different URLs but it would launch whichever app it wanted to regardless of the URL....

ProgrammingPython

djangotestxmlrpc

I had been working on DjangoPyPI and trying to fix some tests related to XML-RPC that were failing in versions of Python < 2.7, because the testing was relying on specifics of the implementation of xmlrpclib in Python 2.7. I...

ProgrammingPython

Some tips for setting up Apache and mod_wsgi

I recently set up an internal PyPI server at work for hosting some of our internal Python packages. I used djangopypi and that was pretty easy to set up and get it working in the Django runserver. Most of the difficulty came in...

GtDProductivityProgrammingProject ManagementRants

Have a conversation once or have it over and over forever

When a team is collaborating to create software, there are inevitably issues that come up in “big picture” areas like architecture and process. There are two ways to deal with these: Take some time out from the daily...