Archive for the ‘Software’ Category
Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008
Normally I would abstain from pointing out security issues on other's websites, but since this bit of code provides absolutely no security at all I can do so with a clear conscience. The bit of code below is from my former banks personal account login. I quickly changed ...
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Friday, April 11th, 2008
To allow for custom error pages (404,500) in Django/Google App Engine all you need is this bit of middle-ware that stubs out the request class for you so that it doesn't blow up.
Add your custom templates to your template directory and name them 404.html, 500.html etc.
Paste the following into middleware/errorpages.py
class ...
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Thursday, April 10th, 2008
I'm used to running mange.py in my Django apps and I kept forgetting the name of the Google App Engine equivalents. My script only knows how to do two things at the moment, "runserver" and "publish" but now I can manage everything the way I'm accustomed to.
Update: Aprill ...
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Tuesday, April 8th, 2008
I just learned about Google App Engine a couple of hours ago and I have to say I'm pretty excited about what their doing. I really like the fact that they didn't go out and try to invent their own IDE and scripting language. I'm still really reluctant ...
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Monday, March 31st, 2008
I just want to start off by urging anyone who is writing open source applications for the Android mobile platform to release their applications under the GNU General Public License V3.
The Open Handset Alliance is about to wrap up the first round of the Android Developer Challenge and they're ready ...
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Thursday, March 20th, 2008
I use personas in the same way I think most people are using them in OpenID today. I don't think of them as identity containers, but as address bundles. I have one very creatively labeled "Work" and another labeled "Home". Hmm.... That sounds exactly like how I ...
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Friday, February 15th, 2008
With all of the great distributed versioning tools out there it's a wonder everyone is still using traditional client-server versioning systems like SVN or CVS. Especially when you consider how trivial distributed systems are to setup for small projects. Unless your hosting your SVN project with some one ...
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Thursday, February 14th, 2008
I'll be in Miami along with Kevin Fox, also from Vidoop, toward the end of the month for a couple of different events that should be a lot of fun. I'll be catching BarCamp on the 28th followed by
FOWA - Future of Web Apps. I can't wait to ...
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Monday, January 28th, 2008
Ok, I know Zend_OpenId is on the way, but for those of us who don't like to wait here's a way to get OpenID working with Zend Framework. Besides, JanRain's libraries tend to be pretty solid and up to date so you won't go wrong using this in place ...
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Sunday, January 27th, 2008
There seems to be several Zend_View_Helper tutorials out there and all of them talk about what a view helper is and does, but I always left with one question: How do I make the helpers available to ALL of my views?
Then I learned a bit about Zend_Controller_Action_HelperBroker
This class can ...
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