Archive for November, 2008

Insight, Facts and Hmmms

I’m a big fan of Google Insight.  Mainly because it burns time when I’m bored and provides lots of “hmm” moments.  Its a service Google provide that lets you see search volume against a range of other factors such as geography, time, etc.  I thought I’d put a few together that may be of interest [...]

Saturday Code Quote: 3

Step away form the computer… newlocation must now be the absolute path on newhost. If not we’ve been redirected to somewhere totally stupid (oh yeah, no offsite linking, go to our fucking front page). Say goodbye to the webserver in this case. In fact, we don’t even say goodbye, but just drop the connection. From [...]

What a Suprise – Even D2H’s Rails Crashed

The man who created Rails can’t even keep his Rails site from going down when Digged. I’d like to suggest he use a framework that just works.

Top 15 Python E-Books (legal & free)

I’ll not soil this posting with talk of copyrighted works and will keep it to strictly free, ebooks available to all.  These are the top 15: Dive Into Python – The original but not the best anymore.  It taught me Python so I’ve got fond memories and a special place in my heart for it. [...]

Django and PayPal

Found a nice snippet at the DjangoSnippets site that shows how to integrate your Django app with PayPal. See the magic here.

Metasploit Framework

Its been a while since I did security related but today I came across an interesting platform – with much of it written in Ruby:  Metasploit. Its basically a framework filled with exploits, payloads, auxilliary modules for port scanning, etc.  You need to know how to use it obviously but what makes it cool is: [...]

Script OpenOffice Using Python

Looks like Python is everywhere – even OpenOffice.  The PyUNO Bridge enables you to interact with the OOo API to extend its functionality.  Its feature complete but undergoing testing – get involved.

Saturday Code Quote: 2

NOW! /* get me out of this shitbag loop */ From the source of Part-ND which is a “Unix-based, ANSI C, arbitrary-dimensional, stand-alone particle system and fast gravitational simulator”

The Brits Did It

This picture from XKCD works if you’re British.

Mercurial Integration

I’ve mentioned in a previous post about Mercurial integrations being fewer but I thought I’d actually put together a list of the decent ones… NetBeans – Its managed using Mercurial so you’d expect it to have integrated support for it.  Its also the best Java IDE in the world.  So say I. TortoiseHg – Ah [...]