Assume that you have a Django project where each user belongs to just one group, say Registered or Admin, but not both. You want to show a form in your front-end to let Admin users edit the user profiles, where each user profile is made with First name, Last name …

Discover how you can support PUT and DELETE HTTP requests in your Django project using jQuery. Add a REST touch to your project!

Google Cloud Print (GCP) is a quite useful Google service, allowing you to print in a GCP compliant printer from everywhere and from every device of yours, be it a desktop, a tablet or a smartphone. There are quote a lot of printers out there supporting GCP out of the …

Fast and easy! $ sudo stop mysql $ sudo -umysql mysqld_safe --skip-grant-tables & $ mysql mysql> UPDATE mysql.user SET Password=PASSWORD('newpassword') WHERE User='root'; mysql> FLUSH PRIVILEGES; $ sudo kill `cat /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.pid` $ sudo start mysql Enjoy your new mysql root password!

If you administer at least one Joomla instance you’ll be subject to brute force attacks before or after. Fail2ban is a very nice service written in Python which periodically scans your log files looking for signs of brute force attacks and perform some actions when an attack is discovered …

Since some months I’m using Toggl to track my work time, and I find it awesome! Toggl features a very powerful reporting system to have your timesheets filtered in many ways and exported in csv or pdf format, but I did not found the way to have an Excel …

Recently a client asked me to investigate the possibility to have a Django application hosted in a Windows environment. I looked around a bit and there are many ways to achieve this goal. I found the “pure Python” approach described here simpler to deploy and configure, yet very powerful and …

Just found a JQuery based datetime picker. It’s great. Just add a Javascript like this: var format = "%d/%m/%Z %H:%i"; var picker_options = { format: format, firstDOW: 1, dayAbbreviations: ["dom", "lun", "mar", "mer", "gio", "ven", "sab"], monthAbbreviations: ["gen", "feb", "mar", "apr", "mag", "giu", "lug", "ago", "set", "ott", "nov …