It’s not everyday someone thinks to themselves “Fuck it, I’m doing this”, quits their job, risks everything and starts working on something they truly believe in, embracing failure every step of the way. Since Startup of Puerto Rico and events like Startup After Hours, Founder Institute, Startup Weekend, and others started I’ve slowly but surely seen it… Continue reading From Day Job to Entrepreneur: Interview with Giselle Zeno
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Shifting to “new-style” url tag in Django 1.5
Prior to Django 1.3, the syntax for the url tag was {% url project_create %}. Django considered project_create to be a name of a view in your urls.py, not a template variable named project_create. I recently upgraded Blimp from Django 1.4.5 to Django 1.5.1. We have around 200+ template files that were using the old… Continue reading Shifting to “new-style” url tag in Django 1.5
Kippt as an RSS Reader
Last weekend I felt like working on a hack, but what? With the recent news of Google Reader being retired on July 2013 I thought there was something cool to be done with RSS, but what? As I was looking for ideas on my Clips I realized that with Kippt’s latest update, a redesign from ground up and tons of new… Continue reading Kippt as an RSS Reader
Vagrant VM for StatsD + Graphite
StatsD is this little awesome network daemon built by Etsy used to aggregate stats like counters and timers to a pluggable backend service like Graphite. You can read more about how it works on Etsy’s Measure Anything, Measure Everything blog post. Since I’ve been already playing around with Vagrant and Chef I decided to just… Continue reading Vagrant VM for StatsD + Graphite
Favorite Podcasts
Back to Work Award winning talk show with Merlin Mann and Dan Benjamin discussing productivity, communication, work, barriers, constraints, tools, and more. The Web Ahead A weekly podcast about changing technologies and the future of the web, discussing HTML5, mobile, responsive design, iOS, Android, and more. Customer Development for Startups Steve Blank, eight-time entrepreneur and… Continue reading Favorite Podcasts