"My business is to teach my aspirations to confirm themselves to fact, not to try and make facts harmonize with my aspirations."

-T.H. Huxley

Eight Insightful Tech Talks

Published by Thomas Schreiber on Dec 15, 2009 at 12:29 AM.

I am highlighting here some of the better tech talks I watched over the last year, specifically picking out the ones that really get the wheels spinning on a philosophical level.

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Writing Code That Doesn't Suck and Interface-Oriented Design

Published by Thomas Schreiber on Sep 28, 2009 at 3:35 AM.

After watching Yehuda Katz's talk "Writing Code That Doesn't Suck" I was convinced to read "Interface-Oriented Design" by Ken Pugh. Combined, the video and the book greatly enhanced my understanding of what it means to write clean, pluggable, and well tested software.

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Deploying with Django's Sites Framework on Webfaction (virtualenv, mod_wsgi, git)

Published by Thomas Schreiber on Apr 9, 2009 at 9:14 PM.

How to deploy a django site using mutli-sites framework on webfaction shared hosting.

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Book Meme

Published by Thomas Schreiber on Nov 13, 2008 at 9:01 PM.

* Grab the nearest book. * Open it to page 56. * Find the fifth sentence.

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