Using HTML in a Django form label

Published on July 11, 2010

I recently had the need to add some HTML to the label for a form field using Django. The solution is pretty easy, except I didn't see it written explicitly anywhere, and I missed the memo of the function I should be using. My form first just had the HTML ... Read more.

GovHack 2009

Published on Nov. 2, 2009 under Australia

Everybody on our team basically managed to stay up the entire night - not one wink of sleep for most of us. It has been years since I last pulled an all-nighter - but they've always been for good causes. I just did another one - and has an ... Read more.

Redirecting Fun with Lightty

Published on April 23, 2008

Two of my colleagues were having just a little bit too much fun with my blog, so I decided to have some fun back. Over a period of 10 minutes, they managed to leave 10+ comments. Luckily I have full control over my server, and was able to quickly ... Read more.

Forgive me, for I have sinned

Published on June 25, 2007 under Taiwan

The date is June 25th, 2007, and I've sinned. Let me explain. I've been involved in technology for quite some time, and have been very anti-facebook/myspace/friendster. There has never been an urge to join, I've always thought people spend way too much time updating their profiles instead of actually writing ... Read more.

Colddirt Information

Published on May 29, 2007

I wrote up the majority of this on a Friday night, so cut me a tad bit of slack:) Feel free to take a glance at the entire source. NoteColddirt's source code is run from Django SVN, check out on May 10th-ish. If you are using a newer branch, ... Read more.

The Risk in Risk Mitigation

Published on March 15, 2007

Back in the day the barrier to entry for the Internet was quite high. The technology used required a steep learning curve, the equipment extremely expensive, and sometimes even hard to acquire. Fast forward to 2007 and things have certainly changed. If you know any tech people you can likely ... Read more.

Version 3.0 Part Two

Published on Feb. 5, 2007

Well, I'm basically all done upgrading to Version 3.0, I deserve a cake or something. Here's the 411: For the past few years I have been using Mambo, then Joomla, to manage the content on my site. It worked quite well, and was in PHP, so I could add or ... Read more.

Version 3.0

Published on Jan. 26, 2007

To all my loyal (but most likely few, and mainly with the same last name as me):I think I'm going to redo the structure of my site, yes, it is about time.  I've been using a CMS (Content Management System) to categorize everything, but it is time to ditch that ... Read more.

Firefox + BugMeNot

Published on Feb. 9, 2006

Here's a tip for Firefox. An extension called BugMeNot enables you to right click on "general" forms and say "Login with BugMeNot." Firefox will call the BugMeNot extension which looks up in an external database login information. For instance, www.nytimes.com requires a login, which is a great place to test ... Read more.

Python + Web Developement

Published on Jan. 25, 2006

A developer just showed me an interesting framework to produce python-backed sites VERY quickly. This is mainly for you Ian, it natively supports AJAX as well. Here's the link: http://www.turbogears.org/ I watched the demo, pretty interesting. Read more.