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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)
Category Archives: Technology
AJC development group mentioned at APME
We’re in [film!](http://alt.coxnewsweb.com/ajc/soundslides/ajc_apme/soundslider.swf) Robin Henry, our Digital Managing Editor extraordinaire, spoke at a recent [Associated Press Managing Editors conference](http://www.apme.com/) and screened this [Soundslides presentation](http://alt.coxnewsweb.com/ajc/soundslides/ajc_apme/soundslider.swf) that Emily Murphy and the [AJC](http://www.ajc.com)’s multimedia group put together. I look and sound like a … Continue reading
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Facebook + AIM = evil
To the 105 people I spammed today via IM while playing with Facebook… my humble apologies. That was way evil of me, and I’d say slightly evil of facebook to offer… in what universe do folks want IM spam? So … 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
My duh moment – Django and it’s lack of strip filter
Had a total ‘duh’ moment today at work. I wanted to perform the equivalent of [Python’s string.strip method](http://www.python.org/doc/2.3/lib/module-string.html#l2h-819) on some [Django template output](http://www.djangoproject.com/documentation/templates/). I looked on the [Django documentation site](http://www.djangoproject.com/documentation/templates/) but I couldn’t find a strip filter. It took me … Continue reading
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Talking Django at Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
A quick heads-up to any Atlanta area Pythonistas and Djangoistas, I’ll be giving a brief talk at the the September [Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts meeting](http://www.ale.org/new/index.php). As of this morning their Web site didn’t list the meeting, but it’s Sept. 13 at … Continue reading