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Open Source Repositories Have Moved
by Corey Oordt • Published 11 May 2011
We’ve moved The Washington Times’ open source projects on github to http://github.com/callowayproject
Finding Which Python Packages Are Out-Of-Date
by Corey Oordt • Published 8 Apr 2011
As your projects get bigger, they collect more and more packages. It can be a chore keeping track of which packages have been updated to fix potential bugs. We have that issue and devised a simple script to tells us which installed packages could use a bit of freshening up.
4 Lessons Learned About Multivariate Testing
by Corey Oordt • Published 25 Jan 2011
Our first multivariate test netted a 13-18% increase in customer interaction using our Django testing framework and Google Website Optimizer. We learned a lot on this first go around.
Finding Out-Of-Sync Packages Across Servers With Fabric
by Corey Oordt • Published 1 Dec 2010
We have several servers that are supposed to have the same packages installed, but often get out of sync due over time. To make it easier to find these out-of-sync packages and servers, I wrote a quick fabric script to do the checking for me.
App-Centric Django Development Part 2: App Factory
by Corey Oordt • Published 28 Nov 2010
Django makes it easy to start an app with the command ./manage.py startapp. However the app template that it creates is very simple and it creates it within the current project. We need to make the process of creating an independent app that easy, with a much better template.