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Archive for January, 2009

Monitor and Manage Your Rep With StepRep

I work with an amazing group of people. The project I am working on is called MyFrontSteps which is a social media application for getting and sharing

Splitting Django Models Into Separate Files

A little while ago I wrote a post about getting Django unittests to work on DreamHost. The particular problem with the DreamHost setup is that they don’t allow you to programmatically create and drop databases and the default Django unittest behaviour is to do just that: create a brand new test db, use it and [...]

Roger’s Wars Episode 5: The Empire Bills Back

This is part 5 of a multi-part post on my battle to get an iPhone for myself and a Blackberry Pearl Flip for my wife from Roger’s wireless. At the time of this writing, the saga is still on-going so I cannot say how many episodes there will be… Previous episodes: Episode 1: The Phantom [...]

Roger’s Wars Episode 4: A New Phone

This is part 4 of a multi-part post on my battle to get an iPhone for myself and a Blackberry Pearl Flip for my wife from Roger’s wireless. At the time of this writing, the saga is still on-going so I cannot say how many episodes there will be… Previous episodes: Episode 1: The Phantom [...]

Reflections on MFS Sprint 1

Today at VendAsta we had our first full day of planning for the MyFrontSteps Sprint #2. We did some high level planning yesterday as well as demoing and a post mortem for the first Sprint. Having had a chance to relax this evening watching a few episodes of Long Way Round with my wife, there [...]