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Comment on Building an app on Heroku? Here is a production-ready checklist. by StrongLoop and NodeFly Partner to Help the Enterprise take Node.js to Production | StrongLoop

Tue, 21 May 2013 14:58:56 +0000

[…] considerations are almost universally applicable. For example, here’s a great language agnostic Heroku deployment specific checklist that Elliott Murphy created earlier this […]

Comment on 2nd Occasional Think Tank Portland hack morning by Patrick Roche

Patrick Roche — Thu, 09 May 2013 02:48:46 +0000

Excellent work, gentlemen! … Great to hear about the fruits of your hackathon labors – And kudos to Elliot for documenting this for posterity… Y’all’re making Think Tank proud.

Comment on 2nd Occasional Think Tank Portland hack morning by Abe Fettig

Abe Fettig — Wed, 08 May 2013 21:00:26 +0000

Great writeup! Thanks for publishing this.

Comment on Tonight I cooked thai style lobster mango fried rice by Daniel Lopiccolo

Daniel Lopiccolo — Wed, 30 Jan 2013 22:16:37 +0000

Looks like Larry the lobster was trying to make a dash for freedom

Comment on Passwords are so over by Simon Davy

Simon Davy — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 10:32:21 +0000

Another +1 for lastpass, it’s great. I would recommend two 2f devices – if you lose/wipe your phone, how do you access your p/w?

Oh, and good to hear you’re having fun in your new gig

Comment on Passwords are so over by Paul Hummer (@rockstar_)

Paul Hummer (@rockstar_) — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 14:52:51 +0000

+1 for LastPass/Yubikey. A few months ago, I had it generate a report for me on my passwords. It showed me how many places I had duplicated passwords (I imported all my saved passwords from the browser on initial use). While tedious, I went through and either changed the passwords or deleted the account entirely. Now, when I run the report, I don’t have any duplicated passwords.

Comment on Why becoming a manager is a terrible idea. by Kevin

Kevin — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 11:33:57 +0000

In my experience, there are people who can manage, and there is everybody else…

I don’t think I’ve ever met someone who was technically brilliant, and a good manager…and I think technical companies fail to appreciate that it’s a very different skill set.

People get hired for their technical know-how, but end up managing other technical people,

Instead of finding people who are good managers, companies promote, often to keep highly skilled people in the company, and this fails…

I’ve seen it too often over the last twenty odd years, great developer gets promoted to technical manager, so, they no longer have time to inject what makes them great into the team, and they make a poor job of managing the team, lose-lose situation.

Great managers do seem to be fairly rare, great developers who are also great managers are the proverbial needle in the haystack…

Comment on Lazy test loading to deal with conflicting django settings by Ferringb

Ferringb — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 13:04:14 +0000

Realistically what is needed here is for django.settings to 'swivel' it's configuration on the fly- this is the best you can do when dealing w/ globals like this (realistically avoiding said globals is better).Meanwhile, the issue is partially y'alls doing- y'all pull django.settings in as an import after all. I'd probably shift the django.settings import, and a sys.modules wipe of anything django related into a self.setUp() method…Not great but with some minor finessing it ought to do the trick. Not a perfect long term thing though- a long term approach you might want to look into is adding a func for importing django targets into global(), one that proxies and is switchable, controlled by setUp().Personally I'd just go fix that !@*#ing global crap and make it switchable- had patches in the past for django for this, although I don't recall ever seeing them get integrated upstream…

Comment on Lazy test loading to deal with conflicting django settings by Michael Hudson-Doyle

Michael Hudson-Doyle — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 10:04:56 +0000

To channel Mr. Collins, mutable global state is bad?

Comment on Teambuilding and culture in a distributed workplace by Claire

Claire — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 16:13:10 +0000

Thank you for sharing. You never fail to inspire me to want to do more and be a better custodian of our culture. cvd