Subclassing Django’s runserver causes command to be run twice
This week I was creating my own version of the Django management command runserver. Like the built-in, I wanted to run a lightweight development only web ser...
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Getting started with Splunk as an Engineer
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Switching from Ubuntu Unity to LXDE
Canonical was founded with the goal of bringing polish, consistency and usability to the Linux desktop. Derided unfairly by some as not contributing much tec...
Diagnosing Memory “Leaks” in Python
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Scrum in a Nutshell
Scrum is a fundamentally adaptable process. One of the core pieces is the retrospective, where the team can collaboratively change the process itself. Team m...
Agile Motivations and Objections
Often when I first start talking to someone new about Agile and/or Scrum, they have questions and occasionally objections. More often they just don’t underst...
Fixing styling incompatibility with Google Charts and Twitter Bootstrap
Ran into a vexing issue this week when we upgraded to using Twitter Bootstrap. Some of our analytics graphs using Google Charts were suddenly broken in IE 7/...