• Posts Tagged ‘webdev’

    Acronyms you should know: MTTD and MTTR

    by  • 10 May 2011 • Articles

    If you’re a SUMO contributor, there are two acronyms you will start to hear more often from us developers: MTTD andĀ MTTR. They mean “mean time to detect” and “mean time to resolve,” respectively, and they refer to how long it takes to detect an issue in production, and how long it takes to resolve...

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    A brief SumoDev update

    by  • 12 March 2011 • Articles

    A little while ago, I said that I thought we got a B in Q1, but we could move up to an A with a little more work. (This is my favorite grading system: everyone starts at 0 and works up.) Well, we landed two things: Initial JavaScript tests. (And for showfor.) Stuck a...

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    Weekly Update for 11/3/11

    by  • 11 March 2011 • Articles

    Been a busy week! Helped run down an issue with our ads on Reddit. Updated django-multidb-router. Learned a little about ContextDecorator and how to do that in Python 2.6. Shipped SUMO 2.6.1. Wrapped up SUMO 2.6.2, ready to go this weekend. Rolling through activity logs in SUMO 2.7. Building models. Reviewing code. Did some...

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    Weekly Update 04/03/2011

    by  • 4 March 2011 • Articles

    OK, in line with my 2011 goals and because I’m sick of not remembering what I did last week, I’m restarting the weekly update posts. I hope you like hearing about the minutia of my job! (Just kidding. I write these for me.) I’m going to try a “sometime Friday” schedule instead of weekends...

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    O Hai Django AdminPlus

    by  • 4 March 2011 • Articles

    Last night, as happens sometimes, I was wishing it was possible to add some of our custom admin views to the Django admin’s index page. It’s kind of a pain to have to type the URL every time, especially when talking to other people: “It’s in the admin, but no, you can’t… just go...

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