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jQuery Validation with Django Forms

March 8, 2010 - 9:30 am

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How to integrate jQuery validation with Django forms.

Django Model Formsets

March 1, 2010 - 12:00 pm

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Examples of how to create, use, modify, and customize Django model formsets. Adding and changing fields, inline formsets & saving extra model forms.

Mnesia Records to MongoDB Documents

February 1, 2010 - 7:34 pm

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Migrating from mnesia to mongodb using the erlang emongo driver, with a performance comparison of the 2 database systems.

A/B Testing Links

January 27, 2010 - 7:19 pm

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Links on how & why to do A/B testing for your website, with a focus on mixpanel.

Proxy Links

January 18, 2010 - 5:10 pm

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ratproxy
Charles Web Debugging Proxy • HTTP Monitor / HTTP Proxy / HTTPS & SSL Proxy / Reverse Proxy
zoltan’s blog: Transparent proxy with Squid 3 on Ubuntu server

Related Reading:
Beginning C++ Through Game Programming

Programming Interviews Exposed: Secrets to Landing Your Next Job, 2nd Edition (Programmer to Programmer)

Cocoa(R) Programming for Mac(R) OS X (3rd Edition)

Python Programming for the [...]

Programming Philosophy Links

January 13, 2010 - 2:08 pm

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Software Is Hard
Maker’s Schedule, Manager’s Schedule
programming | Quotes Archive
How to be a Programmer: A Short, Comprehensive, and Personal Summary
The “free electron” programmer
Software Carpentry
Edited Contributions – Programmer 97-things
It’s OK Not to Write Unit Tests
Psychology and Security Resource Page
How To Make Life Suck Less (While Making Scalable Systems)
The myth of “undesigned”
The Problem with Design and Implementation

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Far Future Expires Header with django-storages S3Storage

January 10, 2010 - 5:57 pm

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How to set a Far-Future HTTP Expires Header for files stored in S3 using django-storages S3Storage

Dealing with SSH Bruteforce Attacks

January 9, 2010 - 10:07 am

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Dealing With Unwanted SSH Bruteforcing
iptables rules to lock out multiple failed ssh attempts
DenyHosts
Fail2ban

Related Reading:
SSH BUILDS UPON EVOLUTION OF ITS SHELL TECHNOLOGY IN 2005.(SSH Communications Security Corp.): An article from: Computer Security Update

Linux Security Cookbook

SSH COMMUNICATIONS SECURITY NAMED ONE OF 2006 “HOT COMPANIES”.: An article from: Computer Protocols

SSH HELPS SECURE NEXT-GEN SANS.(SSH QuickSec Toolkit for SAN [...]

erldis – an Erlang Redis Client

December 21, 2009 - 8:28 am

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Introduction to erldis, a synchronous erlang redis client application that includes stdlib emulation modules.

Execnet vs Disco for Distributed NLTK

December 14, 2009 - 9:00 am

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Comparison of python execnet vs disco for distributed mapreduce style computation, using NLTK part-of-speech tagging as an example.