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CTO with a CMO flavor Alex Morozov's blog Aboutme 5 Biggest Agile User StoryMistakes Posted on Wed 30 January 2019 in Teamwork • Tagged with agile, scrum, user stories • Leave a comment Sometimes, teams feel that agile user stories are not worth the extra work. Ithink I know the reasonwhy. Continue reading How corporate communications ruin your teamwork and a way to fixthat Posted on Sat 02 December 2017 in Teamwork • Tagged with teamwork, communications, growth • Leave a comment Our new executive had almost ruined our team spirit. Did we fire her? No, wefixed the root cause - our communicationtechnology. Continue reading Preparing for a holiday season? Make sure your website conversion rate is *low*enough Posted on Fri 13 October 2017 in Marketing • Tagged with conversion, sales, marketing • Leave a comment There’s no typo in the title. Our figures show that the lower websiteconversion rate you have during seasonal peaks, the better it is for your sales. Infact, by decreasing conversion, we managed to boost our sales. Read on to learnhow thatworks. Continue reading Make personal growth books work for you: the “Ideas Depot” readingstrategy Posted on Wed 23 August 2017 in Productivity • Tagged with anki, productivity, books, self-development, personal growth • Leave a comment Reading personal growth and leadership books is always rewarding. Forgettingideas soon without integrating them into your life - not so much. Read on tolearn how to finally make books work for you with a simple 5-minute dailyroutine. Continue reading Django: how to create PDF, MS Word and Excel documents fromtemplates Posted on Mon 11 July 2016 in Programming • Tagged with django, python, libreoffice, pylokit, templates, documents • Leave a comment If you’re building a Django system that implies serving some kind of documentslike reports or bills, chances are you want to provide docs in various formatsfrom PDF to MS Word to HTML. But how to implement this without resorting tonumerous templates and packages for each documenttype? Continue reading Why you should use the Django admin: 9tips Posted on Wed 09 December 2015 in Programming • Tagged with django, python, admin • Leave a comment This writing is inspired by a comment on Reddit concerning my recent post:“The problem is that everyone I speak to seems to think the opposite - thatthe admin is super-limited, inflexible and hard tocustomize.”— andybak on RedditI’m about to break this prejudice right now. The Django admin is a reallybrilliant piece of software, which can significantly speed up yourdevelopment.Here are some tips about the Django admin, which I’ve found to be quiteuseful. Continue reading Managed search and replace in many files using Vim andag. Posted on Mon 16 November 2015 in Programming • Tagged with vim, ag • Leave a comment Recently I faced an interesting problem. I had to search for the redundantlines of code (about a hundred occurences), and replace some of them.The bad thing is that I couldn’t do that automatically, as each case had tobe manuallyreviewed.So, how to automate this task, while keeping the manualcontrol? Continue reading How to send Jabber (XMPP) messages fromDjango Posted on Wed 11 November 2015 in Programming • Tagged with django, python, jabber, xmpp • Leave a comment Did you ever want to have a simple Django notification bot? An intranet onewhich just sends you (or someone you tell it to) Jabber messages when certainevents occur? So did I. Please, welcome: django-jabber. Continue reading Tip: How to get a single object`s value with Django ORM Posted on Wed 11 November 2015 in Programming • Tagged with django, python, orm • Leave a comment There are times when you want to get a single field of a single object in thedatabase. For example, just get the headline of the blog post #1, not fetchingit’s body. How do you do it in a usualway?'Hello world'# Or maybe even this way:>>> BlogPost.objects.values('headline').filter(pk=1)[0]['headline']'Hello world'Recently I’ve stumbled upon a shorter one: Continue reading When you shouldn’t use the Djangoadmin Posted on Wed 11 November 2015 in Programming • Tagged with django, python, admin • Leave a comment In case you’ve thought I detest django.contrib.admin — by no means.Actually it’s one of the Django’s greatest features, I really love it. In mostcases.Here’s a real life story. We’ve had to quickly put up the first version of anintranet claim tracking system, and one of our developers was just crazy aboutthe Django admin… So why not, we’ve got along with the stock interface as theprimary one for … Continue reading © Alex Morozov Built using Pelican - Flex theme by Alexandre Vicenzi