BearingPoint is dead. Long live BearingPoint!

Posted by guille on Feb 26th, 2007 | 0 Comments BearingPoint is dead. Long live BearingPoint! Thumbnail

BearingPoint is changing its “Re-launching the BearingPoint brand”! Indeed, that’s what Harry You told the world today. Apparently the company needed to renew its image in order to build awareness and win more business. In order to do this we have seen a(nother) brand new logo and a brand new website. This is indeed the [...]

Django’s FastCGI init.d script for Linux

Posted by guille on Jan 12th, 2007 | 7 Comments Django’s FastCGI init.d script for Linux Thumbnail

Update 15 Jan 2007: I have updated the post as I’ve found a better implementation of this script. Indeed, in my previous solution I was running the server as root. Now I’ve simplified the script, eliminated the wrapper and I’m running my servers as a different user (www-data in my case). In the constant search [...]

One week server downtime

Posted by guille on Jan 8th, 2007 | 1 Comments One week server downtime Thumbnail

In order to start the year in a positive note, I screwed my network. Indeed, it has been down for a week. The downtime was due to a router failure and my holidays at 2000km from home. It was very bad luck indeed! It took me a little while to reconfigure everything and make sure [...]

Deployement of Nginx reverse proxy in my network

Posted by guille on Dec 31st, 2006 | 2 Comments Deployement of Nginx reverse proxy in my network Thumbnail

What a better day to improve a network that the last day of the year? Indeed, it’s what I’ve done with mine. Today, I’ve installed a reverse-load-balancer proxy in my network, Nginx. I was feeling the need for a reverse proxy since the beginning. Once the VServer installed and with the freedom to create as [...]

Linux VServer backups with rsync

Posted by guille on Dec 10th, 2006 | 0 Comments Linux VServer backups with rsync Thumbnail

I have described my server structure in a previous post. And that’s all very well. But you need a backup strategy. Indeed, as I always say, if you think you should do a backup, it’s already too late. And lately, I have been thinking a bit too often about making backups. One of the good [...]

XSS in my search function

Posted by guille on Nov 28th, 2006 | 0 Comments XSS in my search function Thumbnail

I got inspired from the search function of the admin interface  in order to do mine. I got so inspired that it’s actually a simplified version People in the mailing list have asked about such a function for their own code, and I have shared my search function with them. Well… i am ashamed to [...]

Foros de Expansión-Ericsson: Contenidos multimedia al alcance de todos

Posted by guille on Nov 23rd, 2006 | 0 Comments Foros de Expansión-Ericsson: Contenidos multimedia al alcance de todos Thumbnail

Tuve la suerte de asistir ayer a uno de los Foros organizados por Ericsson en su sede de Madrid. Hablaron principalmente de los contenidos multimedia desde el punto de vista de las empresas. Es decir, como sacar el máximo provecho de ese apetecible pastel que está asomando la cabeza en el horizonte del futuro próximo. [...]

‘Divid’ craziness, or how to make a design worse

Posted by guille on Nov 11th, 2006 | 0 Comments ‘Divid’ craziness, or how to make a design worse Thumbnail

I am not a good designer. I am actually not a bad designer neither. I am simply not a designer. But still… there’s some things I can hardly see without smiling. Take a look at this page. It is a famous and important french company. It’s a nice site. A nice menu, well organized… Now [...]

Improved poll application in Django

Posted by guille on Nov 7th, 2006 | 2 Comments Improved poll application in Django Thumbnail

One of the most basic and emblematic applications of Django is the poll application. Indeed, hundreds of djangoist have past through the tutorial at least once. Being a tutorial example application it has some shortcomings. The main one, and the one that will be addressed here is how to avoid visitors voting more than once? [...]

Django deployement on a personal server

Posted by guille on Nov 2nd, 2006 | 2 Comments Django deployement on a personal server Thumbnail

I have discussed in a previous post how my server was organized. I will discuss now how my Django web pages are organized. When I started Django, I realized that one of the power of this framework was it’s flexibility. You could put your site on-line in 1000 different ways. But this flexibility (and lack [...]

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