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This is the first post in our "Web Column" series, detailing recent activity in the web development field that might be relevant to you. Posts like this will appear regularly to keep you up to date with important webdev news.
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.
Making a development environment as close to the what's used in production is always a good plan, as it helps to catch issues earlier as you develop. The following details the way we are using apache in the development of a current side-project.
Read the full post: “Using Apache in a Python Development Environment”
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.
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: “Getting an Early Warning of Low Disk Space”