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Django & Python Adventure Part 3
If you’ve just jumped in, this is my blog series of my walkthrough of a fantastic book on learning Django w/Python called “Django 1.0 Web Site Development” by Ayman Hourieh. I’m doing this to pick up a lot of good … Continue reading
Django & Python Adventure Part 2
Hello again. Today we’ll continue from Part 1 and create an initial Template and some database Models. Django is MVC, it just calls it MTV. So, Model-View-Control = Model-Template-View. I think the View part is what’s most confusing, but, that’s … Continue reading
Django & Python Adventure Part 1
Django & Python Adventure Part 1 Prenote: If you’re on a MacBook, check out Steve’s walkthrough: http://steveyum.wordpress.com/2011/12/14/learning-django-day-1/ Why Django & Python? Seriously, I don’t need a reason to learn stuff (Codegito Ergo Sum); This one is named after a Jazz … Continue reading
JQuery Addon: Masked Date Input
Simple, elegant, and effective date inputs. The following example is mocked up as an age verification, but just to show how to do custom validation. <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC “-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN”> <html lang=”en”> <head> <link href=”http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jqueryui/1.8/themes/base/jquery-ui.css” rel=”stylesheet” type=”text/css” /> … Continue reading
Intro to SQL # For Twitterizer
In this post we’re talking a little bit about an add-on tool for SQL called SQL #. The idea is to give programmers useful functions in T-SQL and Enterprise Manager. It is a library of CLR (Common Language Runtime) functions … Continue reading
Intro to XSS for Web Developers
I don’t run into a lot of web application developers who spend a lot of time thinking about security. I don’t know why. They’re usually under some stress to meet a deadline they didn’t have input on to meet business … Continue reading
Convert a Blog Website into a SQL Data Dump
The challenge I faced: I wanted to catalog a blog site, format the content, and dump it into a SQL database to help out a buddy. Solution Miststep 1: I began to go down the road of using .Net’s WebRequest … Continue reading
DerbyCon 2011
This weekend I attended DerbyCon [http://www.derbycon.com/], the new InfoSec (see: hacker) convention here in the midwest. It was hosted at the Hyatt in Louisville; a really nice town which also had an art show going on so my wife was … Continue reading
A Simple HTML5 & CSS3 Layout
I’ve been working with HTML5 and CSS3 since they came out. At first I remember being confused. I had spent some time getting my bearings in Flash when the buzz began touting HTML5 & CSS3 as the “simple” solution for … Continue reading
Security Training Preparation
With DerbyCon three weeks away, I’ve started ramping up by reading books on security and getting a laptop setup for the training. It’ll be 12 hour days of veterans and noobs showing off their black and white hat stuff. The … Continue reading