Sun 27 October 2013
tags: python django django-cms howto
You might have heard it: django-cms 3 is in beta now, so a final release might be released soon. For a long time we had used cmsplugin-blog with all our django-cms installations. Unfortunately it was lacking many features that we always needed, didn't have much code coverage and didn ...
Every day I carry around about 830GB of data:
Tue 02 July 2013
tags: python presentations howto
Yesterday, I described why my current presentation stack needs an overhaul. Today I'm going to show you my new stack. This how-to will introduce a little helper project that will allow you to easily kickstart a new Reveal.js presentation, split it up into subfiles and host it on ...
Mon 01 July 2013
tags: presentations thoughts
I'm currently preparing a long tutorial about Linux essentials. While I really love Apple's Keynote and Github's Speaker Deck, I'm afraid that for this undertaking my usual "presentation stack" is not going to cut it. Here is why:
I will team up with Luther ...
Sat 01 June 2013
tags: self-growth
One week has passed since I started my information diet and I'm happy to report that I was able to stick to my plan and did not cheat. I have not consumed social media throughout the whole week. Here is how it went:
First ...
Tue 28 May 2013
tags: ruby django development
I have tried many file system watchers so far but none of them worked nicely under Ubuntu and OSX with the same settings.
Recently I stumbled upon observr which is a fork of the maybe better known but abandoned watchr.
Installation is super simple, just make sure that you have ...
Sun 26 May 2013
tags: self-growth
About one year ago I conducted a little self experiment: I removed the Facebook, G+, Twitter and Reddit apps from their prominent positions on my phone's homescreen and declared that I may only start those apps on weekends.
During weekdays I would be allowed to use social media in ...
Fri 17 May 2013
tags: python
I didn't sleep well recently. I'm one of the organisers of PyCon SG 2013 and specifically it is my task to maintain the website. Since the conference will be held very very soon, we are approaching a hot phase where everyone's hard work has to come together ...
Every time I mentor someone about web development with Django, we spend countless hours setting up his or her development machine. I'm getting sick of it, so I thought I might write it all down.
This post will help you to setup a fresh MacBook in such a way ...
One year ago I blogged about Pelican and up until today this remains the most frequented post in my blog. However, in the meantime Pelican got two major version bumps and is much more powerful now (and easier to use). So let's see how to setup your blog with ...