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Basic Authentication on mod_wsgi

I’m currently in the process of creating an iPhone app for Inzolo. This requires an API of course. I wanted to take advantage of what was currently available for Django and I came across wapi. Time is of the essence so I decided to take the easiest route and use basic authentication for now. (I’m [...]

January 11, 2010  Tags: , , , , , , , ,   Posted in: Programming & Internet  10 Comments

Django cron on Webfaction

James Bennett addresses one of the most frequently asked questions in Django – “How do I write a standalone script which makes use of Django components?” That is what I needed to do. I’m still learning Python so I wasn’t sure why the methods he described in his article didn’t work for me. (OK, I [...]

July 31, 2009  Tags: , , ,   Posted in: Programming & Internet  12 Comments

Use Google Earth to Track Your Mileage

Recently I’ve taken up hiking during lunch. There is a nice mountain trail behind my house the I really enjoy. There are a few landmarks that I generally try to make it to with the time I have available. I was curious exactly how far those landmarks were so I used Google Earth to find [...]

July 8, 2009  Tags:   Posted in: Technology  53 Comments

One Click Django Project Publishing

I was reading The Joel Test and I got to number #2 which says "Can you make a build in one step?" My initial thought was that there aren’t really builds per se in web applications (unless you use ASP.NET). But then I thought, I wonder if I could make publishing my Django application a [...]

May 15, 2009  Tags: , , , , , ,   Posted in: Programming & Internet  13 Comments

Webfaction Review

I was looking at my web stats and noticed I was getting a lot of traffic to my limited review of Webfaction. To recap, I tried out there account then decided to cancel, and they were prompt and friendly at delivering a refund. Since that time, I have set up two Webfaction accounts. When I [...]

May 15, 2009  Tags: , , , , ,   Posted in: Programming & Internet, Web Sites  39 Comments

Inconsistent Bugs and Hard Coded Variables

Part of the joys of being a one man development team (sarcastically speaking) is that I get to be designer, developer, and QA. Recently I had the joy of having working on a bug report that security rules were not working right. When I would test it it worked sometimes. I did find it to [...]

April 29, 2009   Posted in: Programming & Internet  3 Comments

Switching to ooma

I been a Vonage customer for a long time. Just to give you an idea, when we first ordered it, someone from Qwest tried to call my wife to get us to use their long distance plan at 7 cents per minute. My wife told them we had had unlimited long distance to the US [...]

April 23, 2009   Posted in: Electronics, Products, Technology  20 Comments

Simple PHP Pluralize

I often find myself writing a if statement when I need to pluralize a noun in PHP. I recently wrote a simple function that did the task for me. I know there are PHP Pluralize functions out there, but they are a bit overkill for my needs. I got this idea from the way Django [...]

April 13, 2009   Posted in: Programming & Internet  14 Comments

Motorola EM1000R 20-Mile 2-Way FRS/GMRS Radio, Pair

So I’ve recently been called in my ward as the emergency preparedness specialist. In our neighborhood we a divided up into blocks with block captains. In the event of an emergency, each block captain will have a set of 2 way radios for communication. I’m not a block captain, but thought it might would be [...]

April 4, 2009   Posted in: Products  8 Comments

Windows 7 Media Center Decoder Error

So for the past couple of weeks, I haven’t been able to watch TV on my install of Windows 7 beta. I though perhaps it was because I had installed some codecs when I was playing with VirtualDub because I got this error: The video decoder is not working, is not installed, or is not [...]

April 2, 2009   Posted in: Technology  20 Comments