By day, I'm a product manager serving a group of fantastic engineers at Square.
By night, I fight crime and solve mysteries with a robot pal of my own creation.
By midday, I like a snack, generally a cookie.
Part of this biography isn't true (hint, I like cookies and engineering, I don't own a robot).
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Category Archives: Technology
Django continuous integration with Hudson and Nose
How to set up continuous testing, with coverage, of your Django project in Hudson. Continue reading
Posted in Django, Programming, Python, Technology
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Setup Django with mod_wsgi on your Mac
Logged for your pleasure, and mine: the steps I went through to setup mod_wsgi on my Mac for local development of Django apps. Continue reading
Posted in Django, Programming, Python
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Memcached and WordPress MU
A step-by-step walkthrough to get WordPress and WordPressMU working with memcached. Continue reading
Posted in Programming, Technology
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A short introduction to Django and Gearman
Notes from my lightning talk at DjangoCon 2009 on Gearman, a distributed work queue. Continue reading
Posted in Django, Programming, Python
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Directory support in pywatch 0.4
The latest version of pywatch now watches whole directories. Continue reading
Posted in Programming, Python, Pywatch
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New look for heisel.org
A rundown on my new “less is less” design and my use of the Balsamiq wireframe tool and the Blueprint CSS framework. Continue reading
Posted in Site News, Technology, Web design
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Pywatch: Run tests when your code changes
I’m happy to announce that pywatch is ready for use, I think. Continue reading
Posted in Programming, Projects, Python, Pywatch
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django-baseboard updated to 0.3
I’m happy to announce that [django-baseboard](http://pypi.python.org/pypi/django-baseboard/) has been updated to 0.3 Here’s what’s new: * Better error handling and reporting for the management commands/cron jobs * Projects are no longer required to have an RSS feed foreign key (bugfix from … Continue reading
Posted in BasecampReporting, Projects, Python, Technology
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Announcing basecampreporting and django-baseboard
At [work](http://www.ajc.com), we use [Basecamp](http://www.basecamphq.com/), a lot. We use it for design projects, development projects, and projects that have no design or development components whatsoever. Our project teams like Basecamp because of its focus on communication, but we’ve found that … Continue reading
Posted in BasecampReporting, Programming, Python
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Analysis: Google News and fair use
So, I can not stand the [brou ha ha over Google News and fair use](http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/08/technology/internet/08google.html?ref=technology). It offends me on several levels, not the least of which is common sense. So for the dim, dull and dense out there, I decided … Continue reading
Posted in Journalism, Technology
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Chris Heisel 