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Calvin Spealman: Using Exploits To Improve User Experience: A Test Case

Many of us know about the neat trick you can do with the common blue/purple colors (without styling) of links, depending on which have been visited or not by the user. Obviously a UX plus to know what you’ve already seen, but we eventually realized this information could be exploited …

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Jaime Buelta: People really love RDBMSs

pI had this discussion with a friend, helping him with a personal project. It was a software to help with a weekly schedule, so it has some teachers, each ones with a profile, some alumns, each one with a profile, and classes, relating the teachers with the alumns with time …

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Death of a Hard Drive

On Saturday, one of the hard drives in my near ancient Linux server failed. Even though I had back-ups of some of my data, I was lax and hadn’t backed up some of the information for a few of the web sites that reside there.
So, until I can rebuild …

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Sending HTML Email From Python

I forget where exactly I found this, but the other day I needed a quick Python method to send an HTML email — in my case, it was in response to a Web CGI request, but this example below is usable anywhere.  The bits that need to be changed for …

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Python Round Up

I really haven’t spent much time looking around at Python blogs/pages/etc lately.  But, since I’m procrastinating from the whole NaNoWriMo thing, I spent time today doing that.
Easy Python decorators –some examples of creating Python function decorators using the decorator module.
Python 3 Patterns and Idioms –early development of an open source …

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