While reading the book "Two Scoops of Django", I learned many useful things about Django. One of the really useful tips in chapter 5 of the book is the isolation of secrets (e.g. API keys and database passwords) from the source code repository, through the use of environment variables …

Time for a little technical post.

Date and time manipulation are one of the most common components in web applications. This is true for a few reasons:

1. Web applications can have users coming from anywhere around the globe, under many different timezones.
2. Chances are that you receive date and time …

If any of you has been visiting this blog through Mozilla with the Tidy-based HTML validator extension, you may notice that the page now validates perfectly with no error and no warning at all, instead of having 1 warning like before. The problem had to do with the Flash movie …