Where is the Boundary of Your Network?
Tuesday October 30, 2007
Sun Microsystems is famous for the saying "The network is the computer". As mentioned previously in this space, the computer is the network. Increasingly, any and every application ... Read More
Initiating an FTP Connection With Python
Monday October 29, 2007
FTP is used for everything from posting websites to maintaining off-site file stores. As such, FTP remains one of the bedrock protocols of the Internet. Recently, we ... Read More
Extending Vim and Emacs With Python
Sunday October 28, 2007
One of the characteristics of any good text editor is extensibility. If you cannot extend it, it will not grow with you, and you are at the mercy of ... Read More
FTP Posting Automagically with Python
Thursday October 25, 2007
Regardless of whether you are running an automated backup or pulling files from a network store, not having to watch over an FTP session is a wonderful thing. Building ... Read More
Jobs Announces SDK for the iPhone
Wednesday October 17, 2007
It feels like I just finished writing that Apple is not likely to have an SDK anytime soon. Well, I guess I'm eating crow tonight. A day after ... Read More
Django on the iPhone
Wednesday October 17, 2007
Back in August, Jacob Kaplan-Moss, one of the developers of Django, announced that he has Django running on his iPhone. More photos are found at Flickr. No tutorial ... Read More
Python and Apache on the iPhone
Monday October 15, 2007
As is well known, Apple has rather tight restrictions on who can develop applications for the iPhone. There is no SDK (software development kit), and an official one will ... Read More
Another Python-Enabled iPhone Alternative
Thursday October 11, 2007
If you have not heard of it yet, you may want to familiarise yourself with OpenMoko. OpenMoko brands itself as the world's first open source mobile communications platform -- ... Read More
Further on P2P as Dangerous
Wednesday October 10, 2007
Following on from the recent post about peer-to-peer as dangerous, a US District Court handed down a very stiff fine for illegal use of a peer-to-peer client. After being ... Read More
iPhone: A Perfect Portable Hacking Platform
Monday October 8, 2007
Despite the various pros of the N800 (including above all extensibility with Python) and the cons of the iPhone detailed previously, a lot of iPhones have sold. You, your ... Read More
No More Moonlighting...Cybercrooks Go Pro
Thursday October 4, 2007
The development of a codebase is evolutionary. The saying goes that programs become applications and applications never realise their full potential until they become platforms for further application development. ... Read More
The Cats and Dogs of Python Editors
Tuesday October 2, 2007
As recently mentioned, your editor is really an extension of yourself within the programming environment of Python. As a programmer, you have no other way of interacting with Python ... Read More
Pulling Indentation Back From the Margin
Tuesday October 2, 2007
Python's enforced code structure is one of the hardest parts of the language for beginning programmers to practice. Unless they are pushing for something like the Obfuscated C Code ... Read More