Github, the premier social coding site, has a new REST API. I've written a small API client in Python to handle retrieving data on repos, commits, and gists.

When I interviewed for my first web development job one of the first questions was "Are you comfortable using linux?" I thought "Why would I need to know how to use that?" -- newb mistake.

Hooking into django's authentication system using two approaches: a custom authentication_backend and signals.

DynDNS provides an awesome free service - a hostname that points at your home server. Most of us have a dynamic IP provided by our internet service provider, and running a home server can be a pain whenever your IP address should happen to change. DynDNS allows you to create a hostname that will point to your dynamic IP.

If you have comments on your site, or allow use generated content to appear in prominent places, it's a good idea to remove profanity. This regular expression matches case-insensitive for any bad words, and strips the entire word to the leading and trailing whitespace.

One of the biggest barriers to entry on the web might be the "register -> check email -> login -> remember account info" paradigm. At work I recently developed a proof-of-concept app that allows a single login to work with multiple sites. How? iframe

Outlining how I merged two databases for django-powered sites using a combination of SQL, django-multidb, and pg_dump.

How to implement many-to-many relationships with extra fields, or, Many-to-Many Through. Covers django models and admin.