Django Syndication with Colddirt II

Published on June 3, 2007

Since I've already covered a really simple syndication example, I'll move onto something a little more complex. Let's say you want to offer syndication that is slightly more custom. The Django syndication docs give an example from Adrian's Chicagocrime.org syndication of beats. I had to ponder a ... Read more.

Event vs. DOM Driven Parsing of XML

Published on April 29, 2008

I recently have been playing with parsing GPX files and spitting out the results into a special KML file. I initially wrote a parser using minidom, yet after running this the first time -- and my Core2Duo laptop reaching 100% utilization for 10 seconds -- I realized I needed ... Read more.

Integrating OSSEC with Cisco IOS

Published on Nov. 15, 2008

I rank OSSEC as one of my favorite pieces of open source software, and finally decided to play around with it more in my own free time. (Yup, I do this sort of stuff for fun). My goal was quite simple: send syslog packets from my Cisco to my "proxy" ... Read more.

Most Frequently Used French Words

Published on Aug. 30, 2009

Status: 90% I'm currently studying French with my partner, and if you've read any of this site, you'll notice I'm a bit of a techie. Often several of my interests collide, which is what happened today. I was searching for the "most frequent french words," and while I found ... Read more.