To further what I've learned in 4 short months of Django, the first thing pointed out to me came courtesy of IRC #django channel. I posted a bit of code, and a question was asked "Why don't you use 'create view'. Why? Cause I didn't know what ...

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Four months ago I started working on a Django project. Little did I know what I was getting myself into. In four months I have completed two Django projects. This blog post is an attempt to sort of show the progression of n00b to less of a n00b (I still ...

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It seems like Python static site generators are the new Python web frameworks. No one liked what existed, so everyone decided to create their own. Spirit of open source, this is neither good nor bad, just depends on how you look at it. Not the purpose of this post though ...

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Ever since I got rid of my iPad (first gen), I've been itching for an e-reader. Over 50% of my books and 99% of my technical books are in an electronic format. I do not like reading on a computer. A while back I purchased a Nook (e-ink). The ...

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#! /usr/bin/python
import os
import fnmatch
import smtplib
import string
from email import Encoders
from email.MIMEBase import MIMEBase
from email.MIMEMultipart import MIMEMultipart
from email.MIMEImage import MIMEImage
from email.Utils import formatdate
COMMASPACE = ', '
msg = MIMEMultipart()
msg['Subject'] = 'Weekly Graphs'
msg['From'] = '[email protected]'
msg['To'] = 'bmorrison ...

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I've started playing with Arduino, I've always been fascinated with it. AND having been slowly teaching myself Python, why not try and make the two talk to each other? Tonight (10/15/11) I found success! Now, it's nothing spectacular. A simple LED on my breadboard, two ...

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I decided to post my collection of links that I've found while starting to learn Python. They're in no particular order. I may come back later and add comments/etc. based on my experience, but this is simply a collection of resources I've found while starting to ...

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This is a working config I had for Nginx, Nagios and PNP4Nagios.

Hopefully this helps someone. I definitely had to hunt and piece together "recommendations" to make this work.

I also had WordPress in the root of the site.

Nagios was domain.tld/nagios and PNP4Nagios was domain.tld/nagios ...

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This has turned into a long post, so by all means: tldr;

In early 2010, I decided to shut down my old server and stop hosting sites for myself and my customers. Little did I know how much I'd miss it.

In November 2010, I went looking for a ...

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The games have come and gone. Microsoft's 2011 Scripting Games were something I had been looking forward to as long as I had been dabbling with PowerShell. I am very much still a beginner, based on my experience and the judging and feedback I received on my scripts this ...

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