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Experiences Developing My First iOS / iPhone App – OnCall for Nagios 17 May 2011 | 02:00 am
I've long since wanted to participate in the explosion of popularity that is the iOS App Store. I toyed with demonstration-purpose applications, learning the foundational aspects of developing on this...
Async DNS Resolution in Tornado’s AsyncHttpClient (curl multi, c-ares) 2 Nov 2010 | 10:50 am
I learned some rather important facts about cURL's multi interface (which makes it possible to perform asynchronous HTTP requests and what Python's Tornado framework uses under the hood in it's AsyncH...
Migrating from a legacy authentication scheme to Authlogic 23 Oct 2010 | 01:44 pm
I've been working on a project where I inherited a database with over 9,000 users. The passwords are stored as an MD5 hash, with no salt. For obvious reasons, I wanted to transition the old authenti...
Convert HTML to PDF in PHP (libwkhtmltox extension) 16 Sep 2010 | 01:49 am
A common problem when developing a web application is having producing a high-quality PDF out of an existing layout/view/template. Perhaps for a reporting engine, an invoice, a receipt, or any number ...
Python libwkhtmltox module – wrapping a C library using Cython – convert HTML to PDF 10 Sep 2010 | 12:00 am
First of all, big shout out to antialize for creating wkhtmltopdf (github repo). Also, this project is being hosted on GitHub @ http://github.com/mreiferson/py-wkhtmltox. wkhtmltox What is wkhtmlto...
Improved deploy:cleanup for capistrano 9 Sep 2010 | 10:08 am
We ran into a problem today where capistrano wasn't correctly cleaning up old releases on a 15-minute multi-host deploy. It seems like the default deploy:cleanup task wasn't written with multiple host...
Tornado 1.0 Released 25 Jul 2010 | 04:27 am
Just a quick note that the Tornado team announced the release of version 1.0 on July 22nd. Here's the changelog. Looks like some nice new features - I'm looking forward to upgrading. No related pos...
Python’s Tornado has swept me off my feet 2 Jul 2010 | 01:00 am
I've been working with Python's Tornado for about 2 months now and I love it. Tornado is a non-blocking web server written in Python. It's structure is similar to web.py so users of that popular Pyth...
google-define and last-fm plugins released 7 May 2010 | 04:44 am
Over the last few days I released my first open-source plugins on GitHub. google-define - Extracted from a side project I worked on, it's basically a wrapper class for parsing definitions from Google...
FormStack API Call Over SSL With Ruby 29 Apr 2010 | 05:45 am
I recently had to use the FormStack API in the context of a Rails app. You need to make these calls over SSL, and API returns either XML or JSON. I chose JSON because it's much easier to work with in ...
