written by Stuart Colville, on 27 July, 2010 at 21:48.
Whilst we were making our reStructuredText API site, we found a flaw in docutils 0.5 which made it possible to inject arbitrary html and javascript into any website or wiki which allows third parties to provide content via restructured text.
Read the full post on “Security: Raw Roles in Docutils”
written by Stuart Colville, on 12 July, 2010 at 21:52.
written by Stuart Colville, on 17 February, 2010 at 12:55.
At Project Fondue we've always used the venerable Apache for our webserver and up until now we didn't have anything special set-up for serving static assets. For a while now I've wanted to move to using Nginx to serve static content as it's generally considered to perform well, it's nice to use and has a low memory footprint.
In this post we take a look at what software was used to build this set-up and how it all goes together.
Read the full post on “Building a Static Asset Cluster ”
written by Stuart Colville, on 21 January, 2010 at 23:11.
Here's a really simple way of getting a notification when your disk space is running low by using a simple Python script in a cron job.
The idea is to configure a script with a threshold at which point if your free disk space is less that "n" percent you'll get an email telling you that you're running low on disk space.
Read the full post on “Getting an Early Warning of Low Disk Space”
written by Stuart Colville, on 26 November, 2009 at 21:55.
We've recently started using Loggerhead for branch browsing as the redmine support for bazaar is a little lacking. We also wanted to provide a way to expose our open-source projects to the world.
Read the full post on “Loggerhead and mod_wsgi”