mtrichardson

A bit of history around Urban Airship and thoughts on doing business in Oregon, leading up to why I think that John Kitzhaber should be our governor.

Some brief thoughts around the panel that I was on at this year's DjangoCon. The topic was on NoSQL and Django.

Concerns on the long-term consequences around an issue with Posterous not supporting custom URLs of any kind.

It took me a while to properly set up Hudson the way we wanted, and I figured that I should document the process in case anybody else wanted to take a crack at it.

Introducing our library which allows you to easily register/unregister feeds with Superfeedr.

I just spent a lot of time trying to get this working and I figured I should blog about this.

The Snow Leopard, libjpeg and PIL combination has a lot of issues. There are tons of blog posts out there about this, and they definitely helped get me a long way.

This blog post and http://proteus-tech.com/blog/cwt/install-pil-in-snow-leopard/ both are great for installing PIL and libjpeg, and if those work, great. You're done.

If, however, you keep getting issues after this when you attempt to import _imaging, try compiling libjpeg as i386.

When going to compile libjpeg:

CC="gcc -arch i386" ./configure --enable-shared --enable-static

And then do the rest normally, and you should be good to go.

Good luck.

Introducing tender-multipass, a Python library for easily sending along multipass single-sign-on requests for Tender.

A quick fix to get some Python libraries compiling properly on Snow Leopard.

A brief description of a quick little Google App Engine app that I wrote to provide elevation data from the USGS as a jsonp-enabled API.

Don't even bother trying to watch videos and other Flash content in Firefox on OS X - Safari just works so much better.

A fix for an issue while testing Django projects with nose and --with-doctest.

An introduction to django_satprep, a Django plugin that makes testing your projects with Nose and Twill a lot easier.

Introducing hgmail, a way to use CVSSpam to get beautiful commit email for Mercurial.

Wherein I talk about my decision for using Wordpress. Which, of course, I don't anymore.

Maybe I'm just asking for too much, but I want more control over how people and services contact me. SMS or IM is generally the best, email and voice the worst. You might feel entirely the opposite of me, preferring everything to go into your email inbox so you can then sort and filter and do whatever dark, disturbing things you do to your email. That's okay. In fact, that's the point - we should be contacted in whatever manner is best suited for our personal work flow. But how do we do that? Just make little notes about each person? "Jim really hates it when I email him, so I have to break down this essay into 140-character snippets and send them out, but I need Samantha CC to get this too, and she wants IM, so..."

Yeah, no.

There's a better way to do this.

My thoughts on the location-aware web.

An argument that increasing social utility is all that matters and that the fact that (in 2008) the majority of Facebook apps were just for fun doesn't change Facebook's dramatic benefit to the social space.

People get excited about relationships. Online friend systems have in many cases become a realm that I'm sure interests the kind of people who want to create drugs for the next hip mental disorder. Anxiety? Oh no, my friend, you have online paranoid friendship issues. Here, take four of these, six of these, and for God's sake, don't check Facebook for at least two days! The silliest part about all this though is that relationships online don't matter.

Wherein I complain about the design of 4 blogs ago.

Wherein I gripe about the state of OpenID reusable apps in Django.