Updated 21 September 2018 and 29 August 2019. See bottom of this post.
I just received my GnuBee Personal Cloud 2 in the post. It's a device newly manufactured specifically to run completely free software, making in completely unique. The device is designed for network accessible storage, providing slots for …
read moreI hate having to re-enter my email settings in a new or reinstalled device. Secure passwords are particularly painful to transcribe via a phone keyboard, but it's not just the basic settings. It's also those extras like signature, disabling notifications and folders that buy you if they're not right. I've …
read moreDjango 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 …The water may be a little chilly, but to coincide with today's opening of the Brown Hill outdoor pool for the summer, we're launching the first page of the Brown Hill Community Hub website — a page about the pool.
We've been getting more involved the local community over the past …
read moreToday, 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 …
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