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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
The Black Wire and the White Wire
The Black Wire and the White Wire On the tension between "traditional" IT, that needs to be less risk averse, and the innovative, risk taking groups found in many companies. I like to think my group is on the white … Continue reading
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One thing I absolutely love about Django’s template loading
Is the ability to specify a series of template folders in [your settings file](http://www.djangoproject.com/documentation/settings/#template-dirs). Here’s what we do at [work](http://www.ajc.com): TEMPLATE_DIRS = ( os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), “templates”), os.path.abspath(os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), “..”, “ANOTHERSITE”, “templates”)), ) It allows us to easily share templates from ANOTHERSITE with … Continue reading
Send SMS from Django applications
Send SMS from Django applications A nice easy wrapper around turning a user’s cell phone number into an SMS-addressable e-mail address.
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Bricks, cities, and software
Bricks, cities, and software I’ve often said that building good software is a lot like building a city — it’s never done, and it’s always changing
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