Principal Engineer, type system nerd, Rust enthusiast, supporter of social justice, loving husband & father, avid comic & manga reader, 日本語を勉強してる。
Principal Engineer, type system nerd, Rust enthusiast, supporter of social justice, loving husband & father, avid comic & manga reader, 日本語を勉強してる。
This week I finished up the initial release of Django-Reporter [http://github.com/bkonkle/django-reporter], my first open-source project based on work I've done for my full-time employer, Pegasus News. At Pegasus we send daily, weekly, and monthly email reports out to several people. We have a q…
Brandon Konkle
At Pegasus News, we run custom deploy scripts that use pip to read through a requirements.txt file and keep our virtualenvs up to date. We use quite a few 3rd-party Django apps that we pull from PyPi, along with several apps - both internal and 3rd-party - from Github and Bitbucket. I'm a huge f…
Brandon Konkle
This 2009 year-end recap has been going aroundFacebookthis week, and I thought I’d go ahead fill out it. This has been a pretty eventful year, so this definitely doesn’t cover the half of it. I may post another entry soon, this time more blog-style, with a more detailed overview of the year for Barb…
Brandon Konkle
I’ve been creating my own web sites since I was 13 years old, and over the last several years it’s grown to become the primary focus of my free time. I began to pursue a side business in web development, but I soon realized that was not enough. I loved web development so much I knew that I needed to…
Brandon Konkle
Many large companies have made the decision to separate the support of software from its development - forming separate teams to focus entirely on one activity. The reasons behind this decision make a lot of sense on the surface. Developers are free to focus entirely on their projects unhindered by…
Brandon Konkle