Author Archives: MXH

Django Project Layout

As a sort-of-followup to my brief remarks of last week, today I’m going to say a few words about how I lay out my Django projects, and how I configure the Apache server to present them. There’s nothing too surprising … Continue reading

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Chaff

Back on 1 September, Ebert wrote a post bearing the charming title “Put up or shut up”. It amounted to a call for prominent Republicans to make a great production out of denouncing claims to the effect that Obama was … Continue reading

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Trademark

So, Michael Buffer. The “Let’s get ready to rumble” fight announcer guy. I looked him up on Wikipedia the other day, and it turns out that he’s made quite a tidy living from that schtick. Supposedly, his trademark on that … Continue reading

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Six Word Stories: Heterological

“There are no absolutes”, he lied. Thank you Dinosaur Comics.

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OAuth and Export Controls

Reading over the OAuth protocol (RFC 5849), I noticed something a little odd in section 2.1: Since the request results in the transmission of plain text credentials in the HTTP response, the server MUST require the use of a transport-layer … Continue reading

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Comments Experiment

I’m going to experiment with enabling comments. Right now, they’re set up s.t. everything has to be manually approved. I’m not sure what my approval criteria will be — probably something along the lines of “I’d enjoy reading that if … Continue reading

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Six Word Stories: Backup

John’s backup parachute didn’t work either.

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OAuth and mod_wsgi

Just a quick tip: If you’re building an (e.g., Django) application that: Relies on mod_wsgi, and Acts as an OAuth server, and Relies on the HTTP Authorization header to pass OAuth parameters, then you need to ensure that you set … Continue reading

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Argentine

An Argy friend of mine was given to: Joking about some of the less-charming stereotypes of her countrymen. (“The French of Latin America.” “How does an Argentine commit suicide? He climbs to the top of his ego and jumps off.”) … Continue reading

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Wikileaks

Some random thoughts on Wikileaks. Be warned: I’m going to be doing a bit of “people say such-and-such” w/o providing any links, because I’m feeling a bit lazy. I don’t think any of these unsourced mutterings will be much in … Continue reading

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