I'm currently working with a friend of mine on a Django app for Amazon sellers to automatically reprice their product listings. One of the features of the app is to show the price change history of their listings. Since they would want to see the timestamp of when the change occurred, we added a setting for them to set their Time Zone so they won't have to do time adjustments in their head.
We store …
I just spent the past hour trying to troubleshoot this error message I was getting from the requests package when communicating with the MailChimp API:
SSLError: [Errno 1] _ssl.c:510: error:14090086:SSL routines:SSL3_GET_SERVER_CERTIFICATE:certificate verify failed
I just provisioned a production server running Ubuntu 14.04 x64 for a new Django project and had been pulling my hair out trying to figure out why it was throwing this error when our stage server works perfectly. Finally I decided to …
I'm currently working on a new Django project which relies heavily on Celery. I normally use RabbitMQ for these kinds of projects but I decided to give Amazon SQS a try this time as it's very cheap and will simplify my setup.
While the Celery docs does a pretty good job explaining how to set it up, there were a few things that it didn't cover that I'm sure other devs will run into. …
If you haven't tried the IPython Notebook yet, you're missing out on a very neat tool. I just started using it a few days ago myself and I regret not having used it much sooner.
I'm currently working on a new Django project where I need to use Amazon's MWS API. I find myself using the Django shell a lot to experiment with the API while building the app. While the IPython shell is quite …
For your average Internet user, it's probably hard to imagine using any other search engine but Google. Even the word 'google' seems to have replaced the word 'search' when talking about the web. Whenever I'm with a group of people and a question comes up that no one could answer, someone would often say "Google it."
We live in a world now where we're always connected. Whenever a question pops up, the answer is usually …