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If you get receive a module not found, o r package not found on your jupyter notebook, it’s because that environment (regardless of what you have in your ENV or virtualenv)  can’t see those packages. The best way to get around this is to simply install them inline in your Read more…

I just published a repository on github that shows you the easiest ‘full service’ solution for syncing trades and hitting the TD Ameritrade API. The biggest challenge here is managing the tokens and the forced ‘re-auth’ every 60-90 days. You can check out the code here ,  ping me on github Read more…

Django is an insanely useful web framework for the average python developer.  Properly used, you can boostrap a fully featured, production ready application in an afternoon. Over the years I’ve noticed that there are a handful of use cases/configurations that always come up.  Funny enough I rarely find good documentation/examples on Read more…

A lot of the systems I build require alerting of some kind (if exceptions occur, services go down etc.)  Because it can sometimes be a pain with deliverability (wrangling sendmail on different servers, dealing with getting marked as spam etc.)  I always use a service like mailgun along with a Read more…

Some developers out there seem to have this incredible ability to remember the intricacies of the languages they write in and the gotchas of every obscure package they’ve ever used.  I am most certainly not one of them.  It’s almost embarrassing how many times I’ll google a simple implementation algorithm Read more…

Working with Dates in python is actually quite simple once you get a hang of all the possible options out there.  The datetime objects are pretty robust, but I find myself only doing a handful of operations on dates in the applications I build. Below I’ll embed all the gists Read more…

I’m posting this as much for my sanity as for yours (I always forget this).  If you want to automate django commands via crontab then make sure you use the following to activate your virtual environment.   The only gotcha here is that you must tell crontab to use /bin/bash.  Read more…