Hi, I'm Julien.

I'm a software engineer, cloud architect, active open-source contributor and public speaker. This space is where I post personal thoughts and code snippets.

08 January 2025: Three IdeaVim Plugins I Built to Boost Coding Productivity

03 January 2025: Git Hard Rebase: An Easier Way to Rebase and Squash Branches

07 February 2017: Identifying bias in the media with sentiment analysis

13 January 2017: Kaggle competition report. ECML PKDD 2015 Taxi Trajectory Prediction

19 December 2016: Drawing geographical density maps with Matplotlib

10 July 2013: A script to quickly access the source of installed python packages

21 February 2013: Fast shutdown of development Vagrant/VirtualBox virtual machines

26 January 2009: Testing time-based views in Django

15 November 2008: Misconceptions about testing (and what we should do about them)

23 October 2008: Site-wide login protection (and public views)

16 August 2008: Adding search to a Django site in a snap

12 August 2008: How to do a case study

08 August 2008: Proxying Django's admin views

30 July 2008: A simple site-wide, per-user, date format validation system

22 July 2008: Django-treemenus new release 0.5

26 May 2008: Django-treemenus new release 0.4

25 May 2008: At last, my blog is up