Check out the Django District mertup

Tonight I am in the district at

Lightening Talks w/ a Testing Flavor (django-district). See more details here:
http://www.django-district.org/events/58149912/

I am supposed to be giving a lightening talk. You can find it on m slideshare account:

Http://slideshare.net/ekivemark

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#GooglePlus posting via email

One of the things that has frustrated me with Google Plus is the way that it acts as an island. I use Posterous to post emails to my blog and notify Twitter and Facebook etc.

So this is a test. I have found some instructions here: http://google-plus.com/2053/how-to-post-to-google-using-email-or-gmail-you-can-post-to-public-circles-extended-circles-etc/ that allows you to use GoogleVoice to connect to Google Plus.

I then went to a very under-rated but amazing service: if this then that.  or ifttt.com

I basically configured a "recipe" that...

Took my Blogger feed url.

Connected it to GMail.

to send an email that posted to my googleplus email address .

So this post is the first test in order to see if this works.

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Made it to #bmorefail

After a productive morning working on tests for Restcat - https://github.com/RESTCat I made it to the Du Burns arena in Canton for #bmorefail. A great crowd building and it should be a fun and informative day.

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#health2stat social media is a channel...

Social media is a channel. You still need a home to bring people back to. Twitter and other channels such as pinterest are not a destination. They are a pointer that links to a destination.

I refer to this in my presentation:

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Python/Django with a testing Flavor - the slides for my lightening talk at Django District

I am still fairly new to the world of Python/Django but have found it to be a very powerful development framework. Recently I have built a UnitTesting framework for a number of Videntity applications including OMHE and Restcat. 

As a result I am attending the Django District Meetup next week and have been asked to give a lightening talk on my experiences in UnitTesting. In preparation for that I put together a few slides and have posted the deck on Slideshare:

However, I don't really consider myself to be a developer so my initial thoughts when asked to present are encapsulated in the following slide:

Hopefully in posting the Slideshare it might prompt some suggestions from people who are more expert than me that will improve my knowledge about Python/Django. So far my experience is that when you come up with a programming solution somebody will be able to suggest an approach that drastically reduces the verbosity and increases the efficiency of the code.

One thing that I am told is  worth pointing out in the UnitTesting frameworks I have built have no external dependencies.

So let me know - what approaches do you take to developing UnitTests for applications in Django? 

((tag: code, development, django ))

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How are we supposed to feel about Nokia's Lumia Windows Phone? a pale shadow of iPhone and Android meant for staid businessmen?

Techcrunch is reporting that European Carriers are not digging the Nokia Lumia Windows Phone. Apparently it doesn't cut it against the Android and iPhone competition. In the US the Lumia 900 phone is effectively being given away this week because they were launched with a bug that affected the phone's ability to use data.

When you put this together with the TV Ad promoting the Lumia 900 it really makes you wonder....

I was watching the ad and came away wondering if it was meant to make me feel:

- The brand is fuddy duddy. Has been slow  to adapt and finally managed to copy the competition (the beta test is over....). It's a business phone - the guy is in a suit. with a staid blue tie.

When you couple this with the bungled launch and data connection problems it leaves you thinking that the beta test may be over but the product was rushed out for it to be tested by the unwitting public. (Business as usual???)

What are your thoughts?

Too little, too late?

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Stevenson University is hosting #RelayForLife

This evening Stevenson's Students and Faculty have turned out in force to take part in Their Annual Relay for Life walk to support the American Cancer Society.

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