While updating a buildout, Pound would not compile anymore. “All” I did was update it from version 2.4.4 to 2.5.

In April Packt published Django 1.1 Testing and Debugging by Karen M. Tracey. After reading it I figured I might as well write a review.

The summary: as of today, you no longer need to checkout enablesettrace from the Zope subversion repository. You can just use the Products.enablesettrace egg to debug your restricted Python code.

Recently I read some articles about web designers. This got me thinking about the qualities I think you need to be a good designer and about the different ways a design can be made.

Today I read two articles about the usefulness of unit testing. Here are my thoughts.

I frequently have to send emails from web applications. But before I deploy to a production environment, I want to make sure the mechanism works and the right mails are constructed. Here's two ways to do that.

A couple of years ago, Joel Spolsky wrote "The Joel Test". Let's see how Zest Software scores...