(This is part two in a series of posts on ssh.)

Ssh tunneling can be a bit mind bending at first, but it's simple when you get used to it. Assume that you're trying to ssh between two sites that do not allow incoming ssh. Maybe your IT ...

Ssh has amazing capabilities that you probably aren't using on a daily basis.

The capability that you probably aren't using, and the easiest to use, is customizing your config file (in ~/.ssh/config) for the various servers you log into.

For example, I frequently log into about ten ...

The ctypes module makes loading and calling into a dynamic library incredibly easy:

>>> from ctypes import CDLL
>>> libc = CDLL('libc.so.6')
>>> print libc.strlen('abcde')
5

As with everything else in python, it gets even better when you scratch the surface. In the example above, CDLL returns an object ...

I've had this code around for a while and had an opportunity to drag it out the other day and dust it off. The problem: Every now and again there's a situation where you don't really want to catch an exception, but you do want to perform ...

Thanks for your patience, and for coming back for a discussion of deploying our Django web app.

In case you missed any of the previous posts in this series, here they are:

1. Day One, Get Ready (Concept and prep)
2. Day Two, Mockups (Creating a design)
3. Day Three, Coding (Coding tests ...