In October, I doubled-down on efforts to write more for both the Pinax Project
as well as for Eldarion. Here is a summary of what I wrote.
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For a long time, I knew I should be writing more about all the things we are doing
as part of Pinax and Eldarion,
however, I wasn’t treating it as a priority.
This meant that the day got doing and a million other things needed to get done
and then I was left with no time to write. Parkinson’s law is true, indeed!
Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion
–C. Northcote Parkinson
I wasn’t timeboxing all the things so work just expanded to fill the day squeezing
out writing opportunities. So, I decided as an experiment I’d see what I could
get done by giving myself a one-hour block first thing in the morning.
Some days would be spent researching a new topic, generating topic ideas,
creating a rough draft of a new post or two, or editing and publishing existing
drafts.
The more I stayed disciplined to this hour, the more words just flowed.
It can be fairly common to have situations where your users need to quickly add items to a list, edit those items, and perhaps even sort them. Ideally, we can keep the user focused on their data and tasks rather than how to navigate the software facilitating the work.
For a long time, we used TravisCI and Coveralls for executing lint checkers and tests and tracking our code coverage. These are fine tools but we’ve recently switched to CircleCI and CodeCov. This is our default setup for projects.
As it turns out managing templates in an external app for dozens of different apps across 11 different projects is quite a tedious process. We need something simpler. After all, necessity is the mother of invention.
For years we have supported the same import ordering rules in our CONTRIBUTING.md files as part of the Pinax coding style. One feature of this was separate sections for both django and django.contrib. Time has come for that to change.
Recently I updated eldarion-ajax. to have more robust tests along with 100% test coverage. I wanted to get to this point before I venture into some potentially aggressive refactoring.
A lot has been happening these past two months in pinax-stripe. I wanted to take a moment between all the Pull Requests and provide an update of what’s on master pending a new release.