Archive | October, 2006

30 October 2006 ~ 35 Comments

HOWTO: Five steps to a more secure SSH

Secure Shell (SSH) is everywhere.
Since it’s inception in 1995, SSH has become the most widespread remote login protocol for Linux boxes, with some estimates saying that there were at least 2 million SSH users at the end of 2000. Gone are the days of telnet sending your data in plaintext over untrusted networks. Now [...]

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29 October 2006 ~ 0 Comments

ONLamp covers what’s new Python 2.5

Jeff Cogswell talks about the new features of Python 2.5. Nothing new in the article if you have been following Python’s development, but it’s a decent summary if you haven’t.

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29 October 2006 ~ 2 Comments

Django book release date

From the Amazon product description of the upcoming Django book:
In Pro Django: Web Development Done Right, Adrian Holovaty, one of Django’s creators, and Django lead developer Jacob Kaplan-Moss show you how they use this framework to create award-winning web sites. Over the course of three parts, they guide you through the creation of a web [...]

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28 October 2006 ~ 0 Comments

Syntax highlighting with Pygments

Pygments aims to be “a generic syntax highlighter for general use in all kinds of software such as forum systems, wikis or other applications that need to prettify source code.”

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28 October 2006 ~ 0 Comments

Looking at Python decorators

Muharem Hrnjadovic talks about Python decorators.

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