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Book Review: Ghost in the Wires
When I was in high school, I wouldn’t say I was an avid reader, but I definitely tackled some novels. When I got to college (back in 2003), reading books (that weren’t textbooks) kind of faded away, which is ironic, … Continue reading
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Tagged Book Review, Ghost in the Wires, Hacking, Kevin Mitnick
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Building Awesome Facebook tabs with a Horribly Documented API
I built this Facebook tab in 2 days. The entire template file is 111 lines of code. 2 days is way too long for 111 lines … You can check out the tab here. I’ve been playing with the Facebook … Continue reading
MediaTemple CentOS 5.5 (VE) Server Build – Django 1.3, Python 2.7, MySQL 5.5, PHP 5.3
This is an updated version of an older blog post outlining a full (VE) build for django. I had to update my server due to incompatibilities between the latest version of WordPress and the versions of PHP/MySQL found in the … Continue reading
Posted in Django, Linux, Media Temple
Tagged CentOS, Django, MediaTemple, MySQL, PHP, Python, Server, Server Build
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A Look at Facebook Five Years Later
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Locking down SFTP user without SSH on CentOS 5
”’ Problem Context ”’ We have multiple sites hosted on a single server and needed to give individual FTP accounts to each person, but can not give them permission to see the other sites on the server or any of … Continue reading
Webcam Surveillance System
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Tagged Astak Mole Camera, Evo 4g, iPhone, Mac Mini Server, Webcam Surveillance System
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The Power of Django: 9 websites, 1 database
# Shoutouts Most of this information came from Franchising: Running Multiple Sites from one Django Codebase by Huy Nguyen. Really great article. # Problem Context For this project, we had to build 9 splash pages for a QR Code campaign. … Continue reading
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MediaTemple CentOS 5.5 (VE) Server Build – Django 1.3, Python 2.7
THIS IS OUTDATED DOCUMENTATION. NEW VERSION AVAILABLE HERE: http://blog.hackedexistence.com/mediatemple-centos-5-5-ve-server-build-django-1-3-python-2-7-mysql-5-5-php-5-3 Media Temple is End-Of-Life-ing their Grid Server Django Containers. As such, I had to migrate all my django sites off the grid onto a new (VE) server. This is a guide … Continue reading
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Django “Through” relationship part 1: The Intermediary Model
The Django Through relationship is, in my opinion, one of the most powerful things you can do with Django. It allows you to define extra information about a database level relationship. In this blog post, we will look at building … Continue reading
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Tagged Django, Intermediary Model, Through relationship
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One Line “Tweet This” button for Twitter
Since viewers of a page already had the ability to post that page to Facebook, I wanted to give them the ability to Tweet about it as well. Solution: Twitter provides http://twitter.com/share for you to call directly. By using the … Continue reading
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