TRIGGER WARNING: This review discusses depictions of sexual assault. WARNING: This review contains minor spoilers for Tomb Raider. Crystal Dynamics’ Tomb Raider is a “reimagining” of one of gaming’s most hallowed franchises. It may be useful here to reflect on the profound ways that the preceding TR games have impacted our lives. Imagine a world […]
WARNING: This review contains minor spoilers for Assassin’s Creed III and completely spoils all preceding titles. It only covers the single-player game. Assassin’s Creed, with its five–don’t let the “III” fool you–marquee titles being merely the vertebrae of a mobile game/comic book/novelization franchise empire that makes Mass Effect look compact, spins perhaps the most elaborate […]
My friend and fellow Djangonaut Richard Barran, has written an excellent post about how to monitor a Django site using Munin. He’s written a couple of munin pluggins specifically for Django which he explains in the post. Essentially, Munin is a monitoring tool that lets you look at various performance aspects of your server, and is handy […]
If you’ve used Django for any amount of time then you’ve probably come across decorators. They’re the things with the @ signs over the top of your view. The first one you’re likely to see is the @login_required decorator, which requires a user to be logged in before the view will run. If they are […]
Django has some very useful template filters, like slugify, which turns a string with spaces into a suitable url slug, and title, which turns any string into title case. Have you ever wanted to use these in your views? All you need to do is add this import: from django.template.defaultfilters import * You can replace […]
This is a guest post by Michael Austin, who writes his blog at www.mikazo.com. Identification and authentication are concepts that appear very often when discussing the subject of information security. Each has a different meaning, and both are often confused with one another. Identification and authentication usually both take place at the same time, for […]
Here’s some interesting links I’ve picked up over the last few days. Interested in AI programming? Check out the Google AI Challenge. You have to create an intelligent gaming bot for Planet Wars. If you’ve ever seen any of the TED talks, you might like 8 must see TED talks for IT pros from Computer […]
If you’re anything like me, then you’ll spend a large part of your time working at the command line. I often find it easier to use some things in the shell then as a GUI. Take Subversion for example. While the rest of my team use TortoiseSVN, I’m constantly trying to evangelise the command line […]
I’ve just installed the new Justin.tv Android app on my HTC Hero with Android 2.1 running. It allows you to broadcast live streaming video from your phone, either over Wifi or 3G. For this first test I used Wifi, so I can’t vouch for the speed or quality of a 3G connection. First Impressions The […]
There are several options when it comes to organising your code in a Django project. There isn’t a ‘correct’ way, and it will depend on the size of the project, if it is a team development, or purely the preference of the developer. Templates Django gives you the ability to put your templates anywhere, either […]