Archive for the ‘All ENGLISH articles’ Category
HTTP over SSH … The full Monty!
A utterly safe way to access websites over SSH
June 7, 2010
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Django FormWizard best .. well .. useful practices
Django FormWizard usefulness: emulating decorators .. more to come
February 24, 2010
Tags: django, form, wizard Posted in: All ENGLISH articles, Technical No Comments
MP3 collection filesystem structure
A usable specification for naming conventions for MP3 collections. Coverart, track filenames, what to do? Well read this article 
January 19, 2010
Tags: audio, clean, filestructure, mp3 Posted in: All ENGLISH articles, Technical One Comment
Amarok kicked out the window. Hello Exaile!!
My god, what happend to Amarok. It used to be a great player. The latest version turned into a -non-intuitive-non-flexible-interface- audio player. As Brian says it very eloquently in Songbird vs. Amarok: How not to design a GUI, and currently working on interface design myself. Amarok .. WTF? After reading the Middle pane thread on [...]
January 4, 2010
Tags: audio, exaile, player, python Posted in: All ENGLISH articles, Diepe zucht, Technical 2 Comments
Django: get distinct field selection
A function for Django that is a simple and safe solution to get a distinct (group by) field selection from a model.
December 16, 2009
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Django: QueryScreener, a record level ownership development auditor
QueryScreener is a middleware development tool that helps to avoid unwanted data disclosure once you go into production. It monitors queries to the models and warns you when queries are executed that lack a ownership clause.
October 26, 2009
Tags: development, django, python Posted in: All ENGLISH articles, Technical No Comments
“Walk-around” for pre lighttpd-1.4.23 feature “fix-root-scriptname”
Walk-around should ofcourse be workaround but it feels more like a walk around … Today I ‘moved’ the first version of my application from the Django development setup (run via “./manage runserver”) to a lighttpd/fcgi production setup. Been cleaning up code and concluded I wanted the app straight on the ‘/’ or docroot with a [...]
August 15, 2009
Tags: django, framework, python Posted in: All ENGLISH articles, Technical No Comments
Webmail hoax
People do NOT follow the instructions if you get an email like the one showing below. This is a HOAX!!! I put this here in the hope that people do not actually reply to web.support@intructor.net and give out their credentials. To some it might seem useless to post this. But I am sure that there [...]
July 18, 2009
Tags: hoax, security Posted in: All ENGLISH articles No Comments
The Ten Commandments of egoless programming
Cleaning out old documentation, bumped into these: Understand and accept that you will make mistakes You are not your code No matter how much karate you know, someone else will always know more Don’t rewrite other programmers’ code without consultation Treat people who know less than you with respect, deference, and patience The only constant [...]
July 16, 2009
Tags: code, programming Posted in: All ENGLISH articles No Comments
Script goodies in Delicious toolbar
By mere coincidence i figured out that scripted bookmarks work just as well in the delicious bookmarks toolbar as they would do in your regular bookmarks toolbar. (That is .. tested with FF 3 on ubuntu For example, if you put this: javascript:void(location.href=’http://tinyurl.com/create.php?url=’+encodeURIComponent(location.href)) as a url target in a bookmark it redirects you to a [...]
April 23, 2009
Tags: All ENGLISH articles, delicious, javascript, script, tinyurl Posted in: All ENGLISH articles, Technical No Comments
