- Jun 24, 2019I am still figuring out where my opinions are on this topic, as such I reserve the right to contradict myself, change my mind and just generally be wrong throughout this and every subsequent post on the subject.
- May 24, 2019Apparently TDD is the way to to modern software development. I say that facetiously, TDD is the ONLY way to do software development!! However, I often find that writing the tests end up taking way more work and is way more complicated than writing the code itself, but mostly that's because I am a newbie to PyTest and unit testing in general.
- May 21, 2019We are about to roll out some of our new stuff to a production-like staging server, exciting times! One of the lessons we did NOT learn early enough is that if you're not going to automate your database changes, you really need to keep on top of organising them!
- May 10, 2019So this week I was fiddling around with some database connection settings. We use Flask-SQLAlchemy as our ORM for our Flask project but have been experiencing some random socket timeouts when we push to our AWS dev environment.
- Mar 28, 2019I am in a situation at the moment where I am trying to install a custom Python package into my little app, but for reasons yet to be determined, it's installing into the wrong directory.
- Mar 27, 2019Last week I attended UpFrontConf in Manchester and well, it was awesome.