Python Zone - forum.slicehost.com http://forum.slicehost.com/index.php?p=/categories/python-zone/p2/feed.rss Wed, 19 Jun 13 17:58:12 -0400 Python Zone - forum.slicehost.com en-CA Securing CentOS for Django-powered Websites http://forum.slicehost.com/index.php?p=/discussion/135/securing-centos-for-django-powered-websites Sat, 06 Jan 2007 06:26:29 -0500 djangojoe 135@/index.php?p=/discussions first contribution to the wiki.

Basically I started with a comprehensive guide on network security in CentOS and stripped away everything that was not relevant to a fresh install of CentOS 4.3 on a slice. Then I added some other stuff from a few other guides.

Any feedback is appreciated. I'm still learning a lot of this stuff, so there may be some glaring mistakes...please be kind. =)


Thanks!]]> easy_uninstall http://forum.slicehost.com/index.php?p=/discussion/208/easy_uninstall Sun, 04 Feb 2007 14:21:03 -0500 Elliott Hird 208@/index.php?p=/discussions
easy-install -m thelib
cd /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.4/lib/python/site-packages//
rm -r thelib-loadsofcrap.egg
to uninstall? Come on!

Well, I wrote a bash script to do it for me. Maybe you pythonists will like it. easy_uninstall - just add +x

(I note that people have whined about wanting an easy_uninstall for years, yet nobody took the time to write a few lines of code to do it)]]> Testing with Mechanize http://forum.slicehost.com/index.php?p=/discussion/133/testing-with-mechanize Fri, 05 Jan 2007 15:14:05 -0500 jay.baird 133@/index.php?p=/discussions
Everyone load tests apps using things like apache bench but what does this really do and how does it simulate actual usage?

Enter Mechanize. Check it out. Some of the ways I'm using it are the following:

Simulating user signup and processing under load, user experience under load, looking for buggy or other types of error conditions and my favorite,

The savage baggage handler test:
It runs and aggressively clicks links, submits empty forms, clicks back while doing other operations and so on to see just how jacked things can get.

I know a lot of people here are just starting out with django, but I work with it daily at my job and with my own projects so I've collected quite a bit of python and django wisdom along the way.

So if these tidbits are helpful I'd be happy to share and help when it's needed.]]>