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Storing multi-line strings in JSON with JSONLint

JSON is an extremely rigid schema, which can be great, but it’s definitely not without its shortcomings. The largest of shortcoming, in my mind, is the inability to store multi-line strings in JSON. It is something that can be particularly annoying for storing things like structured text and public keys in JSON for later interaction […]

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Large Django project management

As a freelance developer, I have been involved in numerous Django projects. Moving from smaller projects with only a few apps to complex larger projects is difficult to do. In most cases, I have to get my hands dirty, work on a few bug fixes to familiarize myself with the codebase. Before that though, it’s […]

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Code testing: what I learned from watching Notch code

The theme music for this post is The White Stripes – A Ball and A Biscuit. Warning: This post may smack of fanboyism. Can’t be helped.

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How to find and hire Android developers

So, you’ve got an idea for a new mobile app, or perhaps you have an iPhone app and you want to hire an Android application developer to port your iPhone app to Android. Hey there, green buddy!

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Building Vagrant machines with Packer

Sharing a common development environment with everyone on your team is important. It is really hard though to keep the same dependencies, database versions and other systems in sync between different machines. Let’s look at building a Vagrant machine to do just that.

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Switching from coffee to caffeine pills

Mmmm.

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How to use CalDAV for Google tasks

The theme music for this post is Percy Sledge – The Dark End of the Street. Cool! Gun.io user MatthewBauer has claimed the bounty to make a way to post to Google Tasks using Siri.

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Github guide: How to pull, branch, squash and fork in Github

Fork, branch, track, squash and pull request

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Bringing continuous deployment to everyone

Our good friends at Codeship.io recently held a Continuous Deployment Meetup in Boston with some of the best engineers in the space, and were nice enough to let us share it with our community. Here it is!

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OpenSpritz – a Spritz bookmarklet for speed reading

Today, I’m pleased to announce OpenSpritz, a free speed reading bookmarklet.

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I got Ol’ Dirty Bastard’s FBI files

One of my hobbies is liberating government documents using Freedom of Information Act requests. To do this, I use the service MuckRock, which allows users to submit FOIA requests online. Using MuckRock, I have been able to obtain the FBI profile of Wu-Tang Clan member “Ol’ Dirty Bastard,” best known for his dirty rhymes and interruping the Grammy’s.