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 …

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 …

This is more a "note to self" in case I need to do this again.

We use hub at work mainly to convert GitHub issues to pull requests. For Mac users, you can install it by simply typing in brew install hub. But for Linux users, the installation is a little bit more complicated.

Below is the easy way to do it:

sudo apt-get install ruby
sudo curl https://hub.github.com/standalone -Lo /usr/bin/hub
sudo chmod 755 …

While most people probably find content on your site through Google, it might still be a good idea to just add a basic search functionality to it. You can control which fields to search, how your results are displayed, and your readers won't have to leave your site. You may also have content that is not yet public that you want to be able to search, such as unpublished articles or blog posts.

For this …

It had been over year since I last looked at DataTables, a jQuery table plugin for creating tables with advanced features. I used it for my Django app, GlucoseTracker, and it worked great. But one thing that was bothering me was it wasn't responsive. It was the only element in my app that wasn't responsive and looked horrible when viewing on a phone in portrait mode.

Over the weekend I decided to check …