Monthly Archives: September 2008

chimpy: MailChimp API for python 1

I needed to use MailChimp from a Django app, so I have knocked up a wrapper for their API. Come on over to the google code site for chimpy if it is useful to you.

Why you shouldn’t use BT business 0

My new office use BT for their ADSL. We had a problem with mail disappearing between people in the office. So I emailed BT and asked them what was happening. Before they would help, they needed three emails in the last 72 hours that had disappeared.
I provided three emails satisfying this criteria. [...]

Snooper’s Paradise 0

This week’s column is about the Home Office’s alleged new plans to keep a centralised record of the nation’s communications traffic data:
Can you “persuade others of the benefits of proposals or the value of a particular interpretation”? Then perhaps the recently advertised position of senior information officer at the Home Office’s new Intercept Modernisation [...]

2600: The Hacker Quarterly 0

This week’s Reboot column is on The Best of 2600: a Hacker Odyssey:
“That evening he unpacked his books from London. The box was full of things he had been waiting for impatiently: a new volume of Herbert Spencer, another collection of the prolific Alphonse Daudet’s brilliant tales, and a novel called Middlemarch, as to which [...]

TextMate with nose 0

If you want to use nose as your test runner while developing with TextMate, then you need the nosexml plugin. Install and then follow these instructions.