Working Smarter is Not a Substitute for Hard Work

Published at November 30, 2015 ·  2 min read

It never fails, you’re working hard, busting your rear to meet all the demands put on you and your team, and inevetibitaly your manager, co-worker or family member speaks with resounding revolition, “work smarter, not harder.”

This is one of the worst advisements you can accept. Let’s take a weak moment and reflect how most (including my former self at one time) thought how this phrase perfectly described an wonderful notion. If we simply find ways to be smarter, by either automating, doing more with less, or finding shortcuts then we can get that same work done with less effort. I do agree, that many times possible to do that same work with less effort. Accomplished as we might be, and feeling like geniuses, we still find ourselves circling back into a situation where we need to “work smarter, not harder”. Wait, we were just working smarter and we’re still working too hard! - you might think.

SCALE12x: Flask with a Django Style Twist

Published at February 24, 2014 ·  1 min read

Django is great if you like the ORM, relational databases, and serving public facing websites. If you don’t intend to stray too far from the built-ins; keep Django, otherwise you should consider Flask. Flask is a flexible micro-framework with no enforced ORM so you can incorporate your own ORM, OGM, or unique object manager. If you still like the syntactic sugar and organization of Django, don’t fear, you can keep it with just a little bit of work. Here I’ll show you how to make Flask act similar to Django for serving up an API.