Tag: announcements
📣 Now on Google Cloud Run January 5th, 2020
A quick announcement: as a bit of an experiment, I’ve moved this site to Google Cloud Run. Please let me know if anything seems broken. I may in the future write a bit about Cloud Run: there’s a lot to like, and also some definite here-be-dragons things. In the meantime, though, my capsule review: Here's my capsule review of Cloud Run / Cloud SQL / Cloud Build, from a Heroku stan: 👍🏻 native Docker, no weirdness 👍🏻 don't pay for idle time!…
Hire me to help you hire November 27th, 2018
Do you have a growing engineering organization that needs help hiring effectively? I can help! I have consulting availability over the next few months to help organizations hire better. I can design your hiring process, write interview questions, teach staff how to interview successfully, or even run your hiring rounds. Read on more for details, or if you’re interested, hit me up: [email protected]. What I can do for you In a nutshell: I will help you hire more effectively.…
Retiring as BDFLs January 13th, 2014
Adrian broke the news: today, he and I are retiring as BDFLs, transitioning to a truly community-run project. Adrian wrote a bit about the history of the BDFL term and our roles wearing that hat. Go check out his writing for that, and for some of his personal thoughts. Here, I’ll just add a few things of my own: For me, this has been a long time coming – I’ve been thinking about this for at least a year.…
I've joined Heroku May 13th, 2013
I’ve joined Heroku as their Director of Security. Why? I started as a Heroku skeptic. The first iterations of Platform-as-a-Service left me deeply underwhelmed. “Deploying web apps is hard,” I said, “there’s no way you can just abstract it away like that.” I was wrong. Over the last few years I’ve gone from being a Heroku skeptic, to a user, to a fan, and now — an employee. Perhaps at some later point I’ll write a bit about how my thoughts evolved, but for now I’ll leave it at this: Heroku’s vision of a world where developers are empowered to deliver apps is one I support.…
Django classes: deployment, ecosystem November 4th, 2010
(Cross-posted from the Revsys blog; I think folks here might be interested, too.) Next month I’ll be teaching two new one-day classes, both of which evolved from common questions we get at Revsys. Each class is going to be offered twice, once in LA and once in Boston. For the impatient here are some links and quick info: Django Deployment Workshop - Los Angeles - December 6, 2010. Django Deployment Workshop - Boston - December 10, 2010.…
Early registration for my Advanced Django class ends soon February 16th, 2010
Early registration ends Friday for the March Advanced Django Class I’m teaching, so if you’re planning on coming, you should sign up soon! I’m really excited about this class: we’ll get to dive really deep into the good parts of Django. We’ll cover all sorts of advanced usage of Django’s APIs, spend a bunch of time playing with all the cool stuff out there in the Django ecosystem, and actually spend a whole day setting up and configuring a real-world deployment stack.…
Reminder: Django Training August 7th, 2009
A quick reminder: if you’re thinking of coming to me week-long Django course in Kansas City next month, today’s the last day to sign up at early-bird pricing. The price goes up by $500 tomorrow. It’s shaping up to be a blast – why not join us?
Django Training July 20th, 2009
I’m pleased to announce that I’ll be teaching a week-long introductory Django course in Kansas City, September 21st - 25th. Teaching’s folks how to use Django is one of my favorite things to do – in fact, I’m in San Jose right now gearing up for a tutorial at OSCON tomorrow – so it seemed a natural thing to make it an aspect of my business. So, if you need to learn Django, why not come spend a week in Kansas City with me?…
It's time for a change March 4th, 2009
It’s the era of change, I suppose… Starting today I’m joining Frank Wiles – a good friend and fellow Lawrencian – at his consulting firm, Revolution Systems, LLC. I’m really excited to be working with Frank: he’s a great guy, and a crazy-smart developer and sysadmin. Together, we’re going to be offering professional Django support to companies who need a Django expert on staff, but can’t afford someone full-time. The Django community is terrific; those who are comfortable with the IRC/mailing list support venue can get great assistance that way.…
Minimalism November 18th, 2008
I’ve been working on redoing my website for at least the last year or so… and finally got it done. I drew obvious inspiration from the minimalism trend (c.f. Bennett, Tomayko, Pilgrim); the simplicity of those sites are quite refreshing. As I was putting the finishing touches on the site, I ran across a roundup of minimalist designs that I think does a great job summing up my attraction to minimalist designs, the article’s first three points describe perfectly what I’m trying to do here:…
Sailing on… February 21st, 2008
Almost four years ago, Adrian posted about a job opening at this little newspaper in the middle of the country. He wrote that World Online is […] one of the most innovative online-news operations in the world. Our main sites […] have garnered an impressive batch of industry awards – and tremendous industry attention – over the past few years. […] We strive for innovation, nimble development and the use of best practices.…
Reboot August 15th, 2005
Well, now. I hear that there’s this thing all the cool kids are doing. Something about a web stick, or a web tree or something… Web Log, that’s it. (Hear that? It’s me running after the bandwagon as fast as my lazy ass can take me.) Of course, this whole site is now powered by Django — including some neat little tricks I’ll try to share later on.