February 2010
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WatchPosted by Ryan Witt (FastSoft Software Development Lead) on onecreativeblog:
The FastSoft engineers often give presentations to bring each-other up to date on technical issues. These presentations are appropriately called “speedups” (get it? fastsoft? speedups? har har). This speedup, given by @kriskowal, is a tricks and tips discussion on his favorite editor, vim.
“Slides” for this...
December 2009
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Sharing Open Source HTML Virtual Terminal
Posted by Kris Kowal (FastSoft Sourcerer)
Last month, we experimented with integrating Ajaxterm with Django. Ajaxterm is a polling HTTP based terminal emulator that can provide a web interface for a local SSH or login session with all the glory of ASCII and Ncurses so you can administer your system or edit configuration files with Vim or, in a pinch, Emacs. The heart of the terminal emulator is...
November 2009
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Textile to HTML Converter
Posted by Kris Kowal (FastSoft Sourcerer)
We use the Textile markup language at FastSoft. Specifically, we use a Python implementation of the Textile to HTML converter attributed to Roberto A. F. De Almeida, Mark Pilgrim, and Dean Allen. The original implementation was a bit dated and it didn’t have support for Unicode in Python 2, so we wrote our own. We’re happy to share our fork of...
September 2009
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Pasadena Pyrocumulus Clouds
Posted by Ryan Witt (FastSoft Software Development Lead)
This is a view from a conference room in our Pasadena office of a pyrocumulus cloud from the Los Angeles station fire.
Update: This appears to be an intentionally set backfire according to the Pasadena Star News.