Setting up Blog with Django 1.6, Mezzanine and Dreamhost

This project started with me not liking the comment system on my Zinnia base blog, and ended with me completely redoing my whole setup. At one point, I decided that I would run the bleeding edge version of Python, Django (from trunk) and Zinnia. Turns out that probably…

My Mid Atlantic CCDC Experience

Back in 2008, I took part in the Northwest CCDC competition. This was when CCDC was just starting, and the 2008 NWCCDC was actually being run the week after nationals, so the winner would not be advancing. I recall that our team did very well in the technical portions of the competition, but…

Python Mimicry Server

I was given a little challenge with the following requirements:

1.) Develop a client and server using the Python socket library that operates as follows
* Client application is given a server IP address (in dotted decimal notation), a port, and a 
password as command line…

How to collect a file from someone…

I am currently exploring a few options with regard to my current employment, and one of the companies I interviewed with presented me with choice of challenges I could do. I had basically 48 hours (during the middle of the week) to complete one of the following (I have redacted some of the…