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Five Days to a Django Web App: Day One, Get Ready

This is the first in a series of posts that will walk through the steps of designing, building, and deploying a complete web app using Django. I’m going to assume you know the basics when it comes to Python, Django, HTML, CSS, Javascript and some basic tools. This will be a part time effort, so [...]

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How To Use A Checklist to Prevent Security Errors

The 2009 CWE/SANS Top 25 Most Dangerous Programming Errors has been out for a while now. Maybe you’ve already eliminated all of these errors from your code. In case you haven’t, this post will help you develop a checklist that you can use to eliminate these errors starting at the architecture level and moving through [...]

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Simpler C Development Environment

If you’re on Windows and you had problems installing Cygwin, there is another package that includes GCC called “MinGW” (minimalist GNU for Windows).

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Getting Started in C

Some may argue that C is an outdated language to learn in 2009. I disagree. Learning C requires some degree of understanding how computers really work. And if you can understand pointers, you’re ten steps ahead of the game. This is the first in a series of articles designed to help the reader learn the [...]

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