Django 1.9 comes with a feature that enforces strong passwords. It's an excellent security feature, but password complexity is not what you want in development. Here's how to turn the feature off to allow simple passwords.
It goes like this. You've created a new database, run the migrations and …
read moreToday's project involves automatically uploading electrical metering data to an FTPS server (explicit FTP over TLS, otherwise knowns as ESFTP). Shouldn't be a problem, since Python supports FTPS out of the box. Only it doesn't work. Here's the code:
import ftplib
ftp = ftplib.FTP_TLS('host', 'user', 'password')
ftp.set …Today, AngularJS isn't doing what I expect. I've auto-generating a really long
form in Django, and adding ng-model attributes so I can summarise the form.
Unfortunately, Angular is overwriting my defaults. Here's a shortened example:
<html>
<head>
</head>
<body>
<form ng-app="testApp" ng-controller="TestCtrl">
<select name="colour" ng-model="colour">
<option …"Bruised" is a little how I feel about my first experience porting a program to ClojureScript — configuring production builds has a few traps for newcomers. That said, I am very pleased with the results and excited to do more working with ClojureScript.
My Dad is a soil conservation officer with …
read moreAt Sturm we build web apps that perform beautifully on both tiny mobile devices and huge desktop monitors. To achieve these, we use Nginx to resize images on-the-fly. This approach was used in our recent Course Finder project with Federation University.
The Nginx web server comes with a handy image …
read moreIt was wonderful to see an outpouring of support for Conservancy last week at LCA 2016. A number of speakers highlighted Conservancy during their talks, Bradley Kuhn gave a talk about GPL compliance, we held a Supporter lunch (photo below), and both the conference organisers and the new Linux Australia …
read moreI'm very excited to be speaking about GNU MediaGoblin this Friday 5 February at linux.conf.au in Geelong, Australia. MediaGoblin is a media publishing tool for artists.
I began using MediaGoblin nearly four years ago as a way to share photos of our new baby with our family and …
read moreI just ran into a strange situation where grunt build on a Yeoman Angular
project was hanging at the following step:
$ grunt build
⋮
Running "ngtemplates:dist" (ngtemplates) task
The cause turned out to be an extra double quote symbol in one of the HTML view templates:
<form method="get" action …I love that Emacs notices merge conflicts in Bazaar versioned files,
highlighting the differences in green and pink. It's a small thing, but I really
miss this automation for when working with Git — I have to manually type M-x
smerge-mode.
The feature works by looking for conflict files and markers …
read moreI've recently returned from LibrePlanet 2015 where I presented a workshop called Rock Your Emacs. The workshop is designed to help Emacs users over the initial barriers to writing their own customisations with Lisp code. While we're waiting for official videos to be published, here's the video, slides and exercises …
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