So a while back I implemented a remember me feature for chrss. I said I'd release the code for it and am finally now getting round to it.
Please note that this kind of "remember me" functionality can represent a potentially security hole. It makes sense for some sites where …
And a couple of photos:
Just finished getting a UI working on the Chumby. Last week I had the basic http server running in the Chumby and I could browse to it from my laptop and control it that …
Just a quick note about splitting your model.py file in Turbogears 1.0, when using SQLObject. The Turbogears docs have some notes on this, but there was an extra trick to it in the end.
The model.py file for chrss, was starting to get a bit big, so …
I finally had a chance to do some more Actionscript coding for the Chumby again. The last widget I did was the bare minimum to get going and this one is only a little more advanced. In particular it's a simple analogue clock. All it does is show the current …
A while back I wrote a caching decorator for chrss. It's mostly used for the rss feeds, to help avoid having over-zealous rss readers slowing the site down. However I'm also now running it on a few other pages that were a bit slow (notably generating PGN files for games …
So now that I've got the Chumby it seemed like a good idea to test out creating and uploading my first widget.
This is my first foray into flash development, so for the moment I'm just cribbing from other sources. I'm hoping that as Actionscript is a cousin of Javascript …
This is sort of a continuation of my little SQLObject performance guide. So it might be worth reading that too, if you are after hints about speeding up SQLObject. Anyway, on with the show...
It's possible to create raw (database agnostic) sql queries with SQLObject. This can be really handy …
Another update to chrss.
At the moment the help section is not directly linked …
Well I just finished fixing a bug in chrss and it's made me very glad that I've been using automated tests.
The bug looked like it might be very tricky to track down and I feared that it might get messy. In the end it proved to be a slight …