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Matt Makai - Python web dev & Twilio Developer Evangelist.

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Advice to College Graduates

A couple of weekends ago, I watched my little brother Luke graduate from JMU. Dr. Rose, the outgoing President of JMU gave the commencement address. I've attended enough read more

Stanford's CS183 Class Notes

Stanford's CS183 class with Peter Thiel is simply amazing. A huge thank you to Blake Masters for writing up summaries of each class. Every class notes post I have read has been amazingly insightful. I highly recommend checking it out... read more

Screencasting on Mac OS X

I recently took a look at the range of screencasting software available on Mac OS X for a couple of reasons. First, I want to have an easy way of demoing software and uploading videos to Vimeo. Second, short screencasts like the ones provided by Treehouse (highly... read more

Can't "Find" Developers? Increase Your Offer

This little rant about paying developers what the market demands instead of complaining you can't find them climbed its way up to the top of the Hacker News charts this morning and... read more

MongoDB, node.js, and Backbone.js

The concept of an all-JavaScript stack on both the client and server is hardly new, but I'm finding the idea more appealing now that the projects have matured. I see notifications like this read more

Django Officially On Github

Django, the web application framework for perfectionists with deadlines, is now officially on Github. Welcome Django, it's about time you... read more

Python & MongoDB News

Yesterday had a couple of interesting Python & MongoDB related posts on Hacker News.

The first post was on scrapping websites with scrapy and storing the data in... read more

Consolidation in the Python Hosting Industry

The announcement yesterday about Epio closing down got me thinking about the Python PaaS industry. I did not have any personal experience with Epio, but from the discussion on... read more

Repository Structure and Python

Kenneth Reitz has another great post on how to structure repositories for Python projects. Repository structure is one of those topics that everyone seems to come up with a slightly different way of doing so it's great to see some direction... read more

Django Nudge (django-nudge)

Django Nudge (nudge) is an open source Django application written by developers at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Nudge is designed to be the Django equivalent to Ramp for WordPress.

In a nutshell, Nudge allows content creators to develop their... read more


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