Category Archives: Tech

Local to External Django Docs Bookmarklet

As I'm learning Django, I've found it helpful to have a local copy of the Django docs to refer to. This is quicker than going to the Django docs site and also helps when I don't have a connection. The…

Customizing Django's Admin Templates and Media When Using the Built-In Development Web Server

At work today, Sean was playing around with creating a Django app and wanted to use the django-grappelli project to get a cool look for Django’s admin. I warned him against using the instructions included in the project since if you are…

Guessing Email Passwords

As part of moving customers from one hosting system to another, we are setting up their email accounts with the same password they are currently using. Based on what I've seen so far, here's some tips for guessing email passwords:

  • Try…

OPUG FTW

The inaugural meetup of the Orlando Python Users Group was held Wednesday at Stardust. By all accounts (well, mine and Josh's so far), it was a success. Since our experienced Pythonistas weren't able to make it, it was a bit…

"Cryptography.CryptographicException: Bad Data" Exception Moving from .Net 1.1 to 3.5

We just finished moving a few apps from .Net Framework 1.1 to 3.5. One of the problems we ran into was this exception when using some symmetric encryption code. When we decrypted the value from the DB, this was being…