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Tuesday, 19th May 2009

djng—a Django powered microframework

djng is nearly two weeks old now, so it’s about time I wrote a bit about the project.

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Django tip: Caching and two-phased template rendering. Neat trick for expensive pages which can be mostly cached with the exception of the “logged in as” bit—run them through the template system twice, caching the intermediary generated template.

# 1:34 am / adrian-holovaty, caching, django, performance, python, template

aws—simple access to Amazon EC2 and S3. The best command line client I’ve found for EC2 and S3. “aws put --progress my-bucket-name/large-file.tar.gz large-file.tar.gz” is particularly useful for uploading large files to S3. Written in Perl (with no dependencies), shelling out to curl to do the heavy lifting.

# 11:38 am / amazon-web-services, aws, commandline, curl, ec2, perl, s3, tim-kay, tools

Critical Mac OS X Java Vulnerabilities. There’s a five month old Java arbitrary code execution vulnerability which hasn’t yet been patched by Apple. Disable Java applets in your browser until it’s fixed, or random web pages could execute commands on your machine as your user account.

# 7:07 pm / apple, applets, browsers, java, osx, security

HOWTO Building a self-bundling Debian AMI. Not as terrifying as you would have thought. Also contains some neat hints as to how some of the more magical parts of EC2 work (like the way your SSH public key automatically ends up in /root/.ssh/authorized_keys).

# 7:49 pm / amazon, ami, cloud-computing, debian, ec2

EC2: Creating an Image. Here’s the easier way of creating your own AMI: start with a running instance in EC2, then customise it to fit your purposes and create a new bundle (and then AMI) using the ec2-bundle-vol command.

# 7:50 pm / amazon, ami, cloud-computing, ec2

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