Archive for March, 2011

Getting Over The Product Release Hump

Wednesday, March 23rd, 2011

With any software product there is a massive wishlist of features to implement and things to develop. It is a never ending process of thinking of ideas, evaluating them, and perhaps adding them into your software. Nowhere is this more apparent, and more of a problem than in the first release. I have been experiencing [...]

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Mark V Shaney

Tuesday, March 15th, 2011

Mark V Shaney was a fake Usenet user whose posting were automatically generated using markov chains.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_V_Shaney I read about this a few weeks ago and thought that it would be interesting to try and create a Mark V Shaney twitter account that would be trained using the twitter fire hose.  The result was the twitter [...]

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Django Media on Amazon S3 Fabric Deploy Script

Friday, March 4th, 2011

Yesterday I moved all my static media files – css, images, and javascript over to S3 and wrote a short function for my Fabric deploy script to make it easy.  This move to S3 provided a noticeable improvement in the responsiveness of my web application. I wrote a simple but effective performance tweak – only [...]

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