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Paulo Poiati

Full Stack Web Developer

  • Dec 26, 2015
    Django Testing: Dealing with datetimes

    While writing automated tests for Django you soon or later will need to control the internal clock of the system. There are several obvious ways to do that and I will try to point out the pros and cons of each one.

  • Mar 1, 2015
    How do I Configure Environment Variables in Ansible

    It’s common to use environment variables to configure applications, especially to store sensible information like passwords and keys (if you are familiar to Heroku you know what I mean). Here I will show how I do it using Ansible and Supervisor.

  • May 27, 2014
    Copying content from vim to Mac OS clipboard

    As a heavy user of vim and Mac OSX I very often need to copy something from vim to the OS clipboard. This can be easily accomplished with the mouse, but I hate to touch it.

  • Oct 31, 2013
    Django Outbox Released

    I enjoy the development experience of the Django framework. But there is something I miss, a better way to evaluate and debug emails while coding.

  • Aug 25, 2013
    Running Cron In Elastic Beanstalk Auto-Scaling Environment

    Cron In Elastic Beanstalk Auto-Scaling Environment, Amazon AWS.

  • Feb 22, 2013
    Flask flash messages testing

    Testing with Flask is generally straightforward but some things aren’t trivial.

  • Jan 28, 2013
    Installing RMagick in Mac OS X Mountain Lion / Maverick with Homebrew

    Installing RMagick with homebrew should be trivial, but it’s not. For some reason the last version of RMagick does not compile with the last version of ImageMagic.

  • Jun 17, 2012
    Browsing between most recent buffers in VIM

    One of the Vim commands I use a lot is the :b# to switch back to the last used buffer (the one you were before the actual open).

  • May 12, 2012
    A not well known and often over looked css property: box-sizing

    The box-sizing CSS property is used to alter the default CSS box model used to calculate widths and heights of elements.

  • Feb 16, 2012
    jQuery Builder: Introduction

    A better way to build DOM elements programmatically.

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