TechShop Offsite

For the Mozilla Flux Web Development team we went to the Tech Shop and we lasered some cool stuff.

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Moving from Android to iOS

I’m a cheapskate, because of this I’m stuck on Sprint which gives my wife an I a very cheap cell phone plan. The downside is we were stuck on Windows phones until just over a year ago, when Sprint said we could pay a fee to use an Android phone. Then a few months ago, the iPhone 4 and 4S were options.

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Our New Car

Note: This car is new to us as of last summer.

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Naming things and a recursion

Most Mozilla webdev projects have an awful project structure, and it’s partially my fault. I’m attemtping to fix that, but I cringe every time someone creates a new playdoh (Mozilla’s Django template) based project.

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18 months

Yesterday Siddhartha turned 18 months. I remember last year running into an 18 month old at the airport and being amazed at how well she said “bébé” (she was French) when she saw Siddhartha. So I had an expectation that Siddhartha would be able to speak at least a word or two by now.

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Choosing a New Web Stack

I like building web sites, a lot. Usually every few years I need to re- evaluate the stack I use for a side-project. Joshua’s Stack Parts site is handy for this.

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Interviewing: How You Think

My friend and Web Dev colleague, James Socol, wrote a piece recently about some hiring things. I think it’s a good idea, and it would certainly make my job easier. It reminded me that I’m putting off a few posts about hiring.

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DjangoCon Testing Tutorial

DjangoCon 2011

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Groupon is poor value

I bought a $30 coupon to Hobee’s for $15. I spent $67 with friends. However, since we ordered 2 $9 mimosas at half off, we couldn’t use the Groupon. Rather than Hobee’s accepting the fact that I spent well over $30, they charged me the full price for the Mimosas, making my net savings at Hobee’s $6. That’s less than 10% of my total bill.

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