Matt Pfefferle

Making Django's Built-in Auth Tests Pass

Fri, 10 Apr 2009 17:53:35 -0400

Making Django's Built-in Auth Tests Pass:

I added the built in auth framework to a relatively fresh Django project today, and upon running my tests, I got a large number of failures coming from auth….

How to Compile OCMOCK_VALUE for the iPhone

Sun, 22 Feb 2009 14:25:39 -0500

How to Compile OCMOCK_VALUE for the iPhone:

If you’re using OCMock to test your iPhone application and OCMOCK_VALUE gives you this error message:

error: syntax error before 'typeof'

Add this line to the top of your test case:

#define...

Matt Mullenweg: Scaling For Your First 100K Users | Raincity Studios

Sun, 15 Feb 2009 20:38:03 -0500

Matt Mullenweg: Scaling For Your First 100K Users | Raincity Studios

Software in a nutshell

Wed, 11 Feb 2009 18:55:32 -0500

Software in a nutshell

"The research found that the traditional design was better - small, private closed offices."

Tue, 13 Jan 2009 08:39:24 -0500

““The research found that the traditional design was better - small, private closed offices.”

- Open-plan offices are making workers sick, say Australian scientists | Top Stories | News.com.au

"Money is like gas in the car — you need to pay attention or you’ll end up on the side of..."

Sun, 11 Jan 2009 23:13:08 -0500

“Money is like gas in the car — you need to pay attention or you’ll end up on the side of the road — but a well-lived life is not a tour of gas stations!”

- Work on Stuff that Matters: First Principles - O’Reilly Radar

How to Achieve Anything | ThinkSimpleNow.com

Tue, 23 Dec 2008 15:12:25 -0500

How to Achieve Anything | ThinkSimpleNow.com:

1. What
2. Why
3. How

"The Obama administration will move forward, as promised with a national program to computerize..."

Wed, 17 Dec 2008 10:12:03 -0500

“The Obama administration will move forward, as promised with a national program to computerize medical records. They will however, miss one of the greatest values of such an effort. Because of privacy concern, government ignorance of technology, etc the system will not have the ability for the medical industry to do data mining. With computerized records we will finally have the ability to spot drug interaction problems and perform research on the effectiveness of treatments. With data mining with patient privacy protection, our health care system can be greatly improved. We will miss that opportunity.”

- I, Cringely » Surviving 2009

"Internet Centric devices Theft of smart phones and Internet centric devices will become a big..."

Wed, 17 Dec 2008 10:10:35 -0500

“Internet Centric devices Theft of smart phones and Internet centric devices will become a big problem. Thieves will figure out how to steal identity information, raid bank accounts and investments, and so on. This will become a big problem.”

- I, Cringely » Surviving 2009

"11) My last prediction for 2009 has to do with venture capital. While investments in technology will..."

Wed, 17 Dec 2008 09:41:48 -0500

“11) My last prediction for 2009 has to do with venture capital. While investments in technology will continue, the really smart VCs will realize there is a much better and more certain way to make a ton of money in the short term: start a bank. Look for the rebirth of community banks, in this case backed by VCs. Work with me on this one. There is no credit available because the big banks won’t lend. But it takes only about $20 million to start a very fine little bank that WILL loan money because the cash can be acquired from the Fed for almost nothing and lent at high rates to technology companies that can pay it back. By creating banks the technology industry will become self-funding. And when the big banks finally stop being frozen with fear and want to take back the lending business, they’ll have to buy all those little banks for at least a 10X multiple. It’s not like starting Cisco or Dell, but a 10-bagger business model that can be replicated over and over again while actually helping the nation can’t fail.”

- I, Cringely . The Pulpit . End Game | PBS

"You’re now expert at what you set out to master. Great. Now go do something else"

Wed, 17 Dec 2008 09:13:09 -0500

“You’re now expert at what you set out to master. Great. Now go do something else”

- The Long Tail - Wired Blogs

HUGE SAVINGS ON WELCH’S SOMETHING OR...

Tue, 09 Dec 2008 21:25:00 -0500

HUGE SAVINGS ON WELCH’S SOMETHING OR ANOTHER!!!!111!!!

Found at the Walmart in Dublin, OH.

Erlang Mode for Emacs

Tue, 02 Dec 2008 15:10:33 -0500

Erlang Mode for Emacs:

These are the commands you need to add to your .emacs file to enable erlang mode in Emacs. It works for Aquamacs as well. You just need to add them to your Preferences.el.

Make money from open source? Umm, no.

Mon, 01 Dec 2008 16:27:44 -0500

Make money from open source? Umm, no.:

Image by rigeneriamoci via FlickrOn Open Source:

Companies have long hoped to make money from this freely available software by charging customers for support and add-on features. Some…

The Best Programming Books of 2008

Mon, 01 Dec 2008 15:27:29 -0500

The Best Programming Books of 2008:

Image by eMaringolo via FlickrThere’s a thread over at Stack Overflow asking for the Best Programming Books in 2008. I think I’m missing out because I’ve only read one of them: …

"In more recent times, Sarbanes-Oxley has practically destroyed the US IPO market. That wasn’t..."

Mon, 01 Dec 2008 14:28:10 -0500

“In more recent times, Sarbanes-Oxley has practically destroyed the US IPO market. That wasn’t the intention of the legislators who wrote it. They just wanted to add a few more checks on public companies. But they forgot to consider the cost. They forgot that companies about to go public are usually rather stretched, and that the weight of a few extra checks that might be easy for General Electric to bear are enough to prevent younger companies from being public at all.”

- The Other Half of “Artists Ship”

Unless you do something, listening is a waste of time

Mon, 01 Dec 2008 14:27:27 -0500

Unless you do something, listening is a waste of time:

Image via WikipediaListening is hard. It’s easier to ignore and rationalize. What’s harder though is learning from those conversations and applying what you’ve learned. The real…

"Every check has a cost"

Mon, 01 Dec 2008 14:26:09 -0500

“Every check has a cost”

- The Other Half of “Artists Ship”

The eBay Syndrome : SEO Book.com

Mon, 01 Dec 2008 12:45:52 -0500

The eBay Syndrome : SEO Book.com:

When you are a default category leader you no longer compete against others in your category. You compete against other categories. Google and Amazon.com understand that. Microsoft maybe. eBay no.

The conventional wisdom is that eBay is protected by strong network effects between its buyers and sellers. I’m starting to wonder if that’s still true. Maybe their market is ripe for disruption.

Op-Ed Columnist - Deficits and the Future - NYTimes.com

Mon, 01 Dec 2008 12:30:55 -0500

Op-Ed Columnist - Deficits and the Future - NYTimes.com:

Krugman recommends maintaining large deficits to help bring us out of the recession. He points out that in two periods in the past, balancing the budget in the face of the recession made it worse. The result was business further reducing investment.