Igor Sobreira

I've finished reading this book, Being Geek, by Michael Lopp, an experienced engineering manager from Silicon Valley. And recommend it...

I've been working with Flash Media Server for the last 8 months now, and
one tool that really annoys me is the Administration Console. I miss a
command line interface to accomplish tasks like see all live streams, reload
an app, etc.

Admin is an awesome Django builtin app to create nice CRUDs for your models, and offers a lot of customizations hooks. You can personalize the templates, perform custom filters, modify newly created objects and if that's not enough, you can always create your own view to do something it doesn't by default.

Given the dynamic nature of Python you can do many things in runtime, like add methods dynamically to an object or class. This is particularly useful when writing unit tests.

Reading the Continous Delivery book I found a good definition of mocks, fakes, stubs and spies