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Confessions of Joe Developer
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Presented by Daniel Greenfeld
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1. I'm stupid:
    * Can't figure things out
        * If I get stuck for more than 30 minutes:
            * Find libraries that do it for me.
            * Ask on Twitter for answers.
            * SO is good, but watch out for trolls.
            * IRC can be good, again, trolls.
    * Can't remember things
        * Documentation makes me look good.
        * Docstrings are awesome.
        * Learn you some REStructuredText
        * Write down even the slide bullets.
        * Sphinx makes me and my code look good.
    * Ask the dumbest questions

2. I'm lazy:
    * Don't want to do anything twice
        * If I write the same code twice, I stick it in a method.
        * Then stick the function into a utils module.
        * Then I put it up on Github so I don't lose it.
    * Don't want to debug code that worked before
        * Manually testing code by watching it run is hard...
        * ... and boring ...
        * ... and hence is error prone.
        * Meaning you have to do more work.
        * **Are you testing enough?**
            * coverage.py is great
            * django-coverage runs coverage.py for Django
            * But you only want to test your own apps. Refer to code on Github for how.
            * Look at how he does INSTALLED_APPS
    * Don't want to upload ZIP files per documentation change

3. Don't be smart and lazy

4. Technical Debt
    * Postponed activities:
        * Documentation
            * unshared knowledge
        * Tests
        * attending to TODO statements
        * Code too confusing to be modified easily

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    A positive trait good tech leads often look for is the ability to ask questions.

Links
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* http://bit.ly/audreyr-sphinx
* https://github.com/pydanny/django-party-pack/

Q&A
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1. Do you try to understand the 3rd party code or isolate it?
    * Pip & Virtualenv to isolate it.