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I occasionally write about software development, projects I'm working on, or what I'm reflectin on.

Safely Cancel Your Celery Tasks

I've been working with Celery for a long time and these days it's a pretty stable part of my stack. There's a lot of good articles out there on how and why you'd want to use this framework, this i…

Setting Up Multiple Databases With Django

Working with multiple databases in Django can seem a bit overwhelming at first but setting it up properly is straight forward and really effective. I'm working on a project where I need to set up…

Just Keep Shipping

The past few weeks have been a bit of a struggle.  I've been working on a handful of different features for two of our apps, EZ Importer and EZ Fulfill.  I had 3 features I was plann…

Building a Custom Django Admin Form

I recently needed an easy way to bulk upload data to one of my database models from the Django admin. I didn't want this functionality accessible to users so it didn't make sense to build the CSV…