Michael Brunton-Spall on Python, Django, Twitter, Web Development, The Guardian
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  1. On 03rd of August, 2010 at 18:19
    Posted in Web Development, Security

    There have been a number of incidents recently where a public website I've been using has gone wrong shown me a nice server provided stack trace on the screen.  The most recent of these examples was the Cineworld website.

  2. On 14th of April, 2010 at 22:40
    Posted in Twitter, @Anywhere, Tutorial, Coding

    I've been lucky enough over the last couple of weeks to have early access to the twitter anywhere platform and with the eminent Chris Thorpe (@jaggeree) build a few prototype that we could use with twitter anywhere.

  3. On 03rd of February, 2010 at 17:48
    Posted in Django, Python, PyCharm

    Did you see my link a few days ago, about PyCharm being released by JetBrains?  I hope so because it is a very interesting IDE for python and django developers.

  4. On 01st of January, 2010 at 15:13
    Posted in The Guardian, Web Development, Python, Scale Camp, Personal

    So as 2009 draws to a close, I look back over the year and consider what has happened.  With this being the end of the decade for everyone but pedants (that will be another year yet), I've also thought about the previous decade.

  5. On 18th of December, 2009 at 22:57
    Posted in Python, Open Source, Regular Expressions, regex-builder

    I'm not a big fan of regular expressions.  They can be powerful, but for anything remotely complicated they can be a nightmare to maintain and re-read.  I had an idea recently for an easy to use chaining regular expression building library but I can't find anybody doing it, so I've created one myself.