Archive for the ‘Microentry’ Category

Is face-to-face communication really always better?

Friday, November 21st, 2008

Image via WikipediaCommunicating Persuasively: Email or Face-to-Face? Our intuitive understanding is that face-to-face communication is the most persuasive. In reality, of course, it's not always possible to meet in person, so email wins out. How, then, do people react to persuasion attempts over email? Persuasion research has uncovered fascinating effects: that ...

More on doing software in distributed team

Thursday, November 20th, 2008

"We want people to stay away from each other and actually get the work done." -- Jason Fried, 37Signals (in the interview with O'Reilly') I have nothing to add :)

Our first startuplet - code review service

Wednesday, November 12th, 2008

Welcome, reviework.com. This is a simple code discussion service working with git repositories and, through git adapters - with any other VC supported. SVN would be added, of course, the first. Right now we are using actively it in our own internal development and working with few selected teams to polish ...

BuildBot and git - peculiarity

Tuesday, November 4th, 2008

Interesting that BuildBot clones git repository in it's own particular way: there's no origin/master branch in the resulting repository.

How to handle secure http (https) via wsgi

Tuesday, October 28th, 2008

Just a little note... If you happen to run django + wsgi + apache and want to access your site via https, you will definitely need this. Problem: A site, deployed on client's server redirects all https requests to http. Initially we've thought that a misconfigured apache is to be ...

“Start in Garage” - books and sites

Tuesday, October 21st, 2008

Books: High Tech Start Up, Revised and Updated: The Complete Handbook For Creating Successful New High Tech Companies The Four Steps to the Epiphany - the Epiphany customer development process Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't People: Dmitry Repin - one of instructors of "Start in Garage"; site in ...

git merge -s remote ?

Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008

Sometimes I spend considerable time resolving merge conflicts between git branches that's absolutely bogus. What I need is just "take a remote branch content and shut up". But despite there is -s ours there's no -s remote. What I'm missing?

Python Exception Seminar #09

Sunday, September 21st, 2008

Image via WikipediaPython Exception #9 Seminar would be held on Sep 27 in Kyiv. Registration is open till Sep 26.

twill mishandles http equiv-refreshes?

Saturday, September 20th, 2008

Image via WikipediaIt's Friday night after hectic work week and I'm too tired to investigate further, but.... It feels to me that twill breaks following http equiv-refreshes from the code. See the debug output: reply: 'HTTP/1.0 200 OK\n' header: Vary: Accept-Language, Cookie header: Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8 header: Content-Language: en equiv-refresh DEBUG: code 200, hdrs has ...

Python transactional memory?

Friday, September 19th, 2008

Ok, nosetests whitewashed in one of accused misactions - it didn't actually messed up with the metadata of my django database backend. It was me, myself. Looks like my test wrappers db_mock and twill_mock where not quite up to date to latest django db backend changes and forgot to save ...