Having secure automated backups means a lot to me. This blog post outlines a way to create encrypted backups and push them into an AWS S3 bucket protected by MFA and versioning, all with one command. There are four parts … Continue reading
The Django framework abstracts the nitty gritty details of SQL with its Model library (the M in MVC). It is straight forward for standard lookups involving WHERE clauses. 10% of the time I need it to do something fancy like a … Continue reading
I recently turned my github activity graph into an 8-bit looking DNA spiral! By setting GIT_AUTHOR_DATE and GIT_COMMITTER_DATE it is possible to log a commit at any point in time. The tool I wrote allows you to draw a pattern … Continue reading
Grunt is a front end build tool I’ve used on the last several projects. It handles CSS / JavaScript minification, concatenation, and linting really well. Some of my legacy projects use a combination of bash and Yahoo UI Compressor, which … Continue reading
Recently implemented a Captcha field on a signup page. So, to start with I looked around for a good plugin to handle this. ReCaptcha was the first one that popped up. ReCaptcha does support themeing, which is nice since the … Continue reading
Pngout is a free command line utility for compressing png files without any loss in image quality. Pngout compresses PNG files really really well (10-30% savings is typical). That translates into real dollars in terms of storage and bandwidth for large … Continue reading
A HEAD requests check to see if the resource exists, and what kind of data it might provide. The key to a HEAD requests is the response contains no data, headers only. I’ve been noticing HEAD requests resolving as 404 … Continue reading
This post demonstrates 5 examples of Spreadsheet-Fu to make quick work of menial data formatting tasks. Spreadsheet programs have useful functions built into them for string manipulation (concatenation, search and replace, formatting, etc). It used to be just Excel and Open … Continue reading
Require.js is trying to solve the problem of dealing with lots of JavaScript. I have used it with Backbone.js, underscore, Dojo, and jQuery. It works well, but it does take some effort to get it configured and running within your … Continue reading
As of the current AWS API, setting the Expires and Cache Control headers for all objects in an AWS S3 bucket requires a script. It is possible to do it one file at a time through the AWS control panel, … Continue reading
