WSGI is great, we all know it. It gives a standard way for Python web applications to talk to web servers. It also means we can intercept that process using middleware. What it does not do is mandate that web framework elements should be exposed through WSGI extensions. Phillip J. Eby, writer of the WSGI standard , expressed these sentiments...

I've been thinking a lot recently about single sign-on , in association with identity management including federated identity . There are some great technologies and standards from the lightweight OpenID and OAuth , and early verions of CAS , through to complex standards like SAML (especially version 2.0 ) with implementations such as Shibboleth...

Ive been thinking about email obfuscation, mainly because we had a meeting about it at work. My initial thoughts are: Is it effective? , Is it worth it? and How long will it last? Is it effective Somewhat. Obfuscations effectiveness seems to largely rest on what method you use Simple schemes have already been broken. For the big companies with...

Apparently Australian's are entitled to Internet access Read more It also looks like we'll be high-flying on the Internet soon enough: National Broadband Network . Damn you Sweden

Because I can scochran@hephaestus:~$ cat /etc/apache2/conf.d/php-fcgid.conf AddType appliction/x-httpd-php .php .php5 AddHandler fcgid-script .php FCGIWrapper /usr/bin/php-cgi .php Options +ExecCGI Yeay isolation I did this hoping that the Event MPM would work but can get nothing but segfaults at the moment... have fallen back to worker . This...

I finally created myself a satisfactory "web framework" using WebOb and Paste to create applications like from webapp import * class MyApp(SimpleAuthenticating, Sessioning, WebApplication): users = dict(sj26='some password', someone='something else') @handles() @check(session has('read terms'), otherwise=redirect('/terms')) def index(self):...

Best "Lock Screen" command for Mac OS X evar System/Library/CoreServices/"Menu Extras"/User.menu/Contents/Resources/CGSession -suspend Thanks

So Ive been playing alot of KoL lately and am loving it. My only problem is the interface... it's balky, antiquated and very old school. Sometimes this is pretty cool, and I get that the crew are trying to keep the interface lean to save bandwidth, but wouldn't it be better with special AJAX sauce? There are hints at interface improvements mind...

Just found this post on pragmatic web development and I love it. It's a bit old, but it reflects greatly the way I think and the way I think the web.py project thinks Check it out

Considering I'm blogging about my box I thought I may as well add a few details about what else has been going on lately I managed to snag a full time position at IT Services, part of The University of Western Australa, doing Linux development work (official title: Linux Developer). I'm taking a year off studying to try and raise some cash to go...