Rob McBroom

5 Ways to Manage Environment Variables with direnv5 Ways to Manage Environment Variables with direnv
May 17, 2022

5 Ways to Manage Environment Variables with direnv

If you find yourself frequently managing environment variables, especially project-specific variables, direnv can be a huge time saver. While the installation process is well documented, this article goes over some potential use cases.

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Use 1Password to Manage Secrets and EnvironmentsUse 1Password to Manage Secrets and Environments
May 4, 2022

Use 1Password to Manage Secrets and Environments

A look at how some improvements brought to the most recent versions of 1Password can help you more easily manage your secrets and environments.

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To pyenv or Not To pyenv, That is The QuestionTo pyenv or Not To pyenv, That is The Question
April 11, 2022

To pyenv or Not To pyenv, That is The Question

Learn the benefits and steps for installing pyenv without letting it take over your shell's environment.

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Improve and Automate Plone Caching with collective.cloudfrontImprove and Automate Plone Caching with collective.cloudfront
June 24, 2021

Improve and Automate Plone Caching with collective.cloudfront

collective.cloudfront is a Plone add-on designed to watch for Purge notifications from plone.app.caching and send the corresponding invalidation requests to an instance of Amazon’s CloudFront.

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A More Flexible and Intuitive Python-Based LDAP LibraryA More Flexible and Intuitive Python-Based LDAP Library
August 30, 2016

A More Flexible and Intuitive Python-Based LDAP Library

A new, pure Python LDAP library is out and easier to work with…

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An Introduction to BeautifulSoupAn Introduction to BeautifulSoup
December 19, 2014

An Introduction to BeautifulSoup

This article will help you save effort processing HTML content using BeautifulSoup.

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Stupid ZMI TricksStupid ZMI Tricks
December 10, 2014

Stupid ZMI Tricks

This article offers a simple digest of information and tricks for using the Zope Management Interface in Plone.

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Performance Testing with LocustPerformance Testing with Locust
November 17, 2014

Performance Testing with Locust

During a recent load-test, we successfully used the Python plugin Locust to create a working test as an alternative to Jmeter.

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Learning Plone as a SysAdminLearning Plone as a SysAdmin
October 14, 2014

Learning Plone as a SysAdmin

I recently started learning to develop for the Python-based CMS, Plone. This is my perspective on learning to be a Plone developer with years of experience as a SysAdmin and Python developer.

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