This is the personal blog of Graham King. I write mostly about software engineering, and occasionally about society. I am also on twitter and github.
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2011
Profiling Django for CPU bound apps
Unicode in Python 2: Decode in, encode out
git: Resolving 'git gc' error: cannot lock ref
The death of Sean Hoare, whistleblower
Contributing to Django: quickstart
Kobo eReader Touch on Ubuntu Linux
Django class-based views are easy
My experience with django-mptt
Improved Ubuntu notifications: gnome-stracciatella-session
Elizabeth Yin: You don't need a programmer, you need a market survey
Running a Tor relay / node / server on Ubuntu
2010
No managers, no meetings: Why working from home is so much more productive
lintswitch: Automatically run pylint / jslint on your code
GNU Screen basics quick reference
Psychology for your webapp at BarCamp 2010
Quote: We want Freedom, not Ping-Pong tables
Question: Income Distribution
Quote of the day: Materialism
Kathy Sierra: Give your users super-powers
A quote from Richard Stallman
Notes from O'Reilly's Website Optimization
You'd be happier without your television. Sell it on Craigslist.
Scientific proof: You need to get rid of that TV
Television and your brain maps
Open up your WiFi
Setting up Monit on Ubuntu
Setting up Munin on Ubuntu
Restarting MySQL master-master replication
Treating the common cold
Predictably Irrational, by Dan Ariely
2009
Influence, by Robert Cialdini
How we know what isn’t so, by Thomas Gilovich
Memcached: List all keys
Guy Kawasaki's 10-20-30 presentation rule
I'm on identi.ca and Twitter
Social psychology in sales copy: Good copy writing
Choosing a message queue for Python on Ubuntu on a VPS
Quote of the day – monkeys
On cellphone use in cars
Django dynamic forms and formsets
How and Why to extend Firefox in Javascript
Unix shared directory permissions: GUID and umask
Legal 1 Usability 0
OpenTTD: Trains and signals for beginners – a tutorial
Quote of the day: Why racists have bad graphic design
Speaking at Open Web Vancouver 2009 in June
Micro-Zooids: A story
Turn on debug output in SVN
Migrating from Picasa to GIMP
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