Blog

• Python Web App Code Design at Hypothesis
  Slides from a code design workshop for our Python, Pyramid web apps at Hypothesis.
• An Opinionated tox.ini File
  Automate all of your Python project's tasks with a succinct tox.ini file.
• Managing Your Project's Virtualenvs with Tox
  A comprehensive beginner's introduction to Tox.
• Unattended Upgrades on Ubuntu
  How to configure an Ubuntu server to automatically keep itself up to date and send you email notifications.
• PDF Fingerprinting
  How to uniquely identify a PDF file, independent of the path or URL the file is currently at, and even after the file has been edited, using PDF.js's "fingerprint" algorithm in JavaScript or Python.
• Python Unit Testing
  A series of Python unit testing tutorials covering pytest, factory_boy, mock, and unit vs integrated tests.
• Code Review
  How to make code reviews a more pleasant and empowering experience for everyone involved.
• Pyblosxom on Ubuntu with Gunicorn & Nginx
  How to set up a Pyblosxom blog on Ubuntu using the Gunicorn WSGI server and Nginx web server.
• git-crypt
  How to encrypt the contents of a git repo with git-crypt.
• Background Tasks as Simple Web Services
  The design of the broken link checker API for CKAN.
• A Broken Link Checker Plugin for CKAN
  Check your CKAN site for broken links and produce a report.
• Functional Core, Imperative Shell
  How to write very testable code using the functional core, imperative shell technique.
• The Network as the Database
  Store work-in-progress user data in the network, instead of in your database.
• The Open Knowledge Data Packager
  An open source web app for creating and publishing tabular data packages.
• A Mozilla Persona Plugin for CKAN
  Login to CKAN sites without creating an account, using Mozilla Persona.