Python Exception Handling: Cleanup and Reraise

I've had this code around for a while and had an opportunity to drag it out the other day and dust it off. The problem: Every now and again there's a situation where you don't really want to catch an exception, but you do want to perform ...

Makefiles are Software Too

This post was inspired by recent experience with some horrible build scripts from the open source world — but I've seen enough in-house badness over the years that I wanted to establish some basic parameters for build scripts.

This is a really broad way to divide the world, but I ...

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 Three, Coding

Thanks for coming back for Day Three!

[Note: Sorry this post is a day late. It was all ready to go late yesterday, but some of the code included below triggered a bug either in WordPress or ScribeFire and the whole post got mangled. I managed to resurrect it today ...

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