Viewing posts by Brad Montgomery
Feb. 2th, 2012 In: None By: Brad Montgomery 0 comments
So, I've been working with Chef quite a bit, lately. Every once in a while, I'll bootstrap a new node and it fails with this:
Dec. 12nd, 2011 In: None By: Brad Montgomery 0 comments
I just picked up a snazzy new Macbook Air, and I'm working on setting up my development environment(s). For the most part this has been fairly easy. I pull in my repos from github and bitbucket, and I use virtualenv and pip to organize all my python packages (mostly installing from requirements files). Most of the other command-line tools get intalled with homebrew, and this time around I decided to install PostgreSQL with homebrew.
Dec. 12th, 2011 In: None By: Brad Montgomery 0 comments
Quite some time ago, I ran across the chosen.js plugin for jQuery and Prototype (I'm using the jQuery flavor). My first thought upon seeing this was, "This would rock in Django's admin app." Yet for some reason, I didn't make that happen.
Oct. 10th, 2011 In: None By: Brad Montgomery 0 comments
There's a lot of buzz on the net about Steve Job's death, and rightly so. For those of us that work in or around the tech world, he was a giant. I fully attribute his company's products (the iPhone and the iPad) to what I like to think of as a renaissance in computing. These devices have changed the way we think about computers, the web, and what software can be—mobile & fully integrated into our daily lives. And not just integrated because we have to use this software, but because we want to use it!
Jan. 1th, 2011 In: None By: Brad Montgomery 33 comments
This post, a followup to my previous post, is now about 2 months overdue. I have to admit, I'm glad I participated in SiteSprint, but I'm fairly disappointed in the amount of work that I accomplished. So, without further ado, here's the update on what happened.