01/31/2015
                 Posted by John Vrbanac
                 software development
                
            
            
            
                Lately, I've been looking for better CI-CD tools for my projects. I heard 
about Codeship on a Podcast and I thought I would 
give it a shot. Infact, I'm now using Codeship to build and deploy the 
contents of this blog. Unfortunately, they currently don't have the greatest
setup for …
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                 12/20/2014
                 Posted by John Vrbanac
                 apps and libraries
                
            
            
            
                I just released a new small project of mine called Alchemize.
Lately, I've been writing a lot of clients and services in Python and
I've noticed that there tends to be quite a bit of code duplication
between the data models that interact with the DB's and APIs. It seems …
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                 12/03/2014
                 Posted by John Vrbanac
                 apps and libraries
                
            
            
            
                Fresh off the press! This evening I have pushed up the latest version
the Specter up on PyPI. For those who aren't familiar with it, Specter
is a Python testing framework inspired from RSpec and Jasmine. One of
the primary goals around Specter is to bring a more expressive and …
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                 08/18/2014
                 Posted by John Vrbanac
                 apps and libraries
                
            
            
            
                A month or so ago I ran into an issue where a nested dependency for one
of the projects I've been working on changed and caused a significant
number of tests to start failing. Unfortunately, it took me hours to
try to determine which one of the huge number of …
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