Welcome

Welcome to the home of Eric Holscher on the web. I talk about software development, mostly in the realm of Django. I am interested in the web, testing, mobile apps, documentation, and lots of other things.

I am currently walking the Pacific Crest Trail, in a quest for the holy grail. My journey lasts from April 15, 2013, until some time in the future :) I will be writing quite a bit about that as well.

Blog Entries

2013

• A Walk in the Woods
• Announcing Write the Docs
• Prepping for the Pacific Crest Trail

2012

• Why Read the Docs matters
• The festival that felt like a hug
• Help fund Read the Docs
• Interesting projects on Read the Docs: Teaching
• 2012 Year in Review

2011

• Handling Django Settings Files
• Read the Docs Updates
• Using Reviewboard with Git
• Read the Docs Update

2010

• A simple Perl IRCBot
• Django Inspect: A generic introspection API for Django models
• Large Problems in Django, Mostly Solved: Documentation
• The role of designers in the Django community
• Large Problems in Django, Mostly Solved: Delayed Execution
• Announcing Read The Docs
• Lessons Learned From The Dash: Easy Django Deployment
• A better webhook for code hosting
• Lessons Learned From The Dash: Nginx SSI
• New features on Read The Docs
• Conference Fun
• Djangocon Talk
• Virtualenv Tips
• Building a Django App Server with Chef: Part 3
• Building a Django App Server with Chef: Part 4
• Site upgrades
• Correct commands to check out and update VCS repos
• Using Haystack to index non-database content
• Required Reading
• Celery Tips
• Django Testing Mailing List
• Running Hudson matrix builds on multiple machines
• Using ZNC, an IRC bouncer
• Building a Django App Server with Chef: Part 1
• Building a Django App Server with Chef: Part 2

2009

• Django now has fast tests
• Review of Pro Django by Marty Alchin (1/2)
• Encouraging Web Interaction for University Students
• Django Conventions Project Update
• Using rsync with django
• Incredibly useful SSH flag
• Automatically apply patches from Django’s (or any) Trac
• Google Summer of Code
• Twitter Spam
• Really easy SSH tunneling
• Pycon and Euro Djangocon
• Testing AJAX Views in Django
• Django’s Summer of Code students announced!
• Adding Google Analytics to Sphinx Docs
• A playground for Django Template tags and filters
• EuroDjangoCon Talk: Testing Django
• Migrating Django Test Fixtures Using South
• Enable setup.py test in your Django apps
• Pretty Django Error Pages
• Hacker Book Club
• Debugging Django in Production Revisited
• Token Testing Talk Slides: Djangocon 2009
• Easily Running the Django Test Suite
• What they didn’t teach me in college
• Large Problems in Django, Mostly Solved: APIs
• The importance of striving for awesome.
• Django Testing Code Coverage
• You should stay for the sprints
• Announcing Kong: A server description and deployment testing tool
• Finding Missing Indexes That Django Wants (Postgres)
• Writing Code with Designers
• Large Problems in Django, Mostly Solved: Search
• Correct way to handle default model fields.
• Class Based Template Tags
• Making Template Tag Parsing Easier
• Adding testing to pip
• Large Problems in Django, Mostly Solved: Database Migrations
• Correct way to handle mobile browsers

Warning

Everything past here in from college. I was living in a bit of a different world back then, so buyer beware.

2008

• America...*sigh*
• Hackers and Painters
• Weekend
• Iowa
• My dad was wikipedia
• OCR with context
• Facebook Scrapage
• Facebook Update
• Earthquakes in politics
• OpenID FTW
• Cool Music Video
• Code on Launchpad
• Books to read
• NCUR 22
• Bill Clinton
• Security Vulnerabilities on the Internet
• Graduate
• Job hunt
• Awesome 3d
• Perfect Abstraction
• Website Interface Design
• Why I love the CLI
• Time to use that education
• Obama & Va
• Work this week
• Sweet ads
• Another neat ad
• All majors are the same
• Crazy times
• Predictive text FTW
• My Second Poem Ever
• Browser Login Discovery
• Power through conversation
• Graduation
• Lawrence Day 1
• Goodbye East Coast part 1
• JOB!!
• Things I say all the time
• Bear Head
• Change of RSS address
• Living well
• DjangoCon September 6-7, at Google!
• Automating tests in Django
• Testmaker .002 (Even easier automated testing in Django)
• Beatles Lecture
• Jim Henson before Sesame Street
• DjangoCon 2008
• Setting up Django and mod_wsgi
• Using Mock objects in Django for testing the current date
• Screencast: Debugging with the Django Error Page
• Screencast 2: Logging in Django, for fun and profit
• Using pdb, the Python Debugger (Django Debugging Series, Part 3)
• Easily packaging and distributing Django apps with setuptools and easy_install
• Screencast: Django Command Extensions
• Getting started with Pinax
• Using pdb to debug management commands and unit tests (Debugging Django Series,Part 4)
• Big list of Django tips (and some python tips too)
• A blog post a day keeps the doctor away
• Announcing Django Crawler and django-test-utils
• Practical Django Testing Examples: Views
• The importance of not deleting blog posts (read: ideas)
• Encouraging Testing in Django
• Should reusable apps have templates?
• Debugging Django in Production Environments
• A start to the uber community
• Busy Busy
• Introduction to Python/Django testing: Basic Doctests
• Python gems of my own
• Gentlemans agreement on Django templates
• Luck and a New Life in Lawrence
• Django Aggregator v2 now has tagging, and you should too.
• Testmaker 0.2: Rewritten and improved
• The value of conventions, aka testmaker for template tags.
• Introduction to Python/Django testing: Basic Unit Tests
• New Design
• Post a day in review
• Introduction to Python/Django tests: Fixtures
• Making a Django Uber-Community
• Ponies
• Software that I use: Essentials 2008
• The problem with Django’s Template Tags
• The times, they are a changin
• Starting a Django Conventions Project and Reference
• Year in Review

2007

• Updating website
• Good Software is SO hard to find..
• iPhone
• People
• Music
• Network KVM
• Goal
• UMW Blog Ring
• Digg/Wordpress plugin ideas
• Firefox Extensions I Use
• Cool site: archive.org
• Writing Advice?
• Last semester in stone
• Schoolwork
• Fall is coming (and good content)
• Ideas need context
• Getting Real
• Browser Tabs
• Lego Lovers
• Python Easy Install
• Merry Christmas
• Stanford U
• Django
• First Post