Currently my favorite web app environment includes: CentOS 5.5 Python 2.6 (built from source) Pylons 1.0 (w/ SQLAlchemy 0.5.8) nginx Whenever I setup a new environment, and execute “paster serve …

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I recently dumped Sprint for Verizon because Sprint provides such shoddy reception in my area. When researching phones online, I came across a few mentions on how to get free …

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(This article is Part 2 in a series about Apache’s loadable modules. The previous topic was mod_ext_filter). As former Microsoft-ite who made the leap to OSS, one of the things …

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I recently discussed mod_ext_filter, a loadable module used with Apache. It allows you to easily process your content through an external program before it’s passed onto the user’s web browser. …

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Almost every experienced web developer who works with Apache is at least vaguely familar with mod_rewrite. It’s most frequently used to reformat ugly URLs containing a lot of query values …

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