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By day, I'm a product manager serving a group of fantastic engineers at Square.
By night, I fight crime and solve mysteries with a robot pal of my own creation.
By midday, I like a snack, generally a cookie.
Part of this biography isn't true (hint, I like cookies and engineering, I don't own a robot)
Author Archives: Chris Heisel
Django cache keys: making them safer
I posted some [code to make your Django cache keys safer] [my-snippet] over at [Django snippets] [django-snippets] the other day. This code evolved at [work] [ajc] over several months as we encountered a few caching challenges with [memcache] [memcache]. * … Continue reading
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Django developer wanted at ajc.com
We’re looking for a great Django/Python developer to join our small team at [ajc.com] [ajc]. Check out the job posting at [Django Gigs] [django-gig] or at [Craigslist] [craigslist]. Here are some of the benefits to working on our team: * … Continue reading
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Gmail theme showing incorrect weather
Is anyone else having an issue where their [Gmail theme](http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&ctx=mail&answer=112508) is showing incorrect weather? It’s 11:38 on a Sunday in Atlanta. There are clear blue skies out and the tree theme is showing me thunderclouds.
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Rich in doughy goodness
In honor of a [special someone’s](http://ericaendicott.com) birthday, [there were biscuits](http://flickr.com/photos/cmheisel/3050496620/), [homemade](http://flickr.com/photos/cmheisel/3050495966/in/photostream/) [buttermilk biscuits](http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/alton-brown/southern-biscuits-recipe/index.html).
What are pages per visit?
If you’re tracking [page views](http://heisel.org/blog/2008/11/18/what-is-a-visitor/), [visitors](http://heisel.org/blog/2008/11/18/what-is-a-visitor/) and [visits](http://heisel.org/blog/2008/11/19/what-is-a-visit/) then you can calculate the next important metric in our jaunt down jargon lane… pages per visit. This one is just what it sounds like — the average number of page views … Continue reading
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