Articles by brian

Eight Reasons to Use a Time Tracking Tool

I just finished the time tracking application for Bale. This is a tool that is key to many other practices, but is very underutilized. (I wonder if this is because so many developers are worried about Big Brother type intrusions into their working habits? See below for why Big Brother ...

Enjoying Scala's Compactness

As I slowly learn my way around the Scala APIs, I'm enjoying the expressiveness that is possible. You can do a lot with just a little bit of code.

Operating on Files

For example, I needed a way to perform an operation on every file in a directory tree ...

Firefox Quick Search for Google Maps

I recently found myself wanting to quickly figure out how far (both miles and driving time) it is to various destinations. At first I was keeping a Firefox tab open to Google Maps and kept keying in the address for the destination. Then I realized that I could make a ...

Five Days to a Django Web App: Day One, Get Ready

This is the first in a series of posts that will walk through the steps of designing, building, and deploying a complete web app using Django. I'm going to assume you know the basics when it comes to Python, Django, HTML, CSS, Javascript and some basic tools. This will ...

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