Benchmarking Wordpress and Django
Regular readers will know that I recently migrated to lighttpd from Apache 2, to try and enable my blog to handle traffic spikes better. Out of curiosity, I decided to benchmark the new setup.
archive for August 2008
Migrating Django and CherryPy to lighttpd
After learning that my 256mb Debian Xen VPS died instantly after being reddited, I decided to take some action to prevent the same thing happening again.
webpwman released
webpwman is an online password manager that I wrote in CherryPy, that can import from KDE pwmanager CSV exports, and run behind an SSL-enabled webserver (which also prevents MITM attacks). It asks 3 security questions, which it randomly rotates on every correct login and asks for a master password which is used to decrypt the password from a json file. The idea being, that if you're on a compromised public terminal, then the bad guys should only get the passwords you viewed that session.
Moment of fame on reddit
I was checking mum's Google Analytics today, and happened to glance at my own:
A little common sense…
<em>To all those people who told me I should switch my cycle ride's direction to 'John O'Groats to Lands End':</em>
I’m famous!
I was featured in this week's issue of the Market Rasen Mail, regarding my sponsored Land's End to John O'Groats Cycle ride.
Command history
Apparently, all the cool kids are blogging their shells' history. Cool, I thought, I'll do it too. But in zsh, the code they used only gets the history of the currently opened session, and I'd just closed all of mine, plus I use multiple shells in Yakuake.
Initial thoughts on web.py and SQLObject
I recently started writing an online password manager. The basic idea is that it would ask 3 questions from a bank of questions, and then prompt for a decryption password and the name of a service of which to get a password. The service would run over SSL, and the passwords would be exported from my laptops KDE pwmanager in my server backup script.
