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Dear [Congressman Guinta/Senator Ayotte/Senator Shaheen]:

I am writing regarding the [Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA)/PROTECT IP Act (PIPA)] bill currently under consideration in the [House/Senate].

I am a ███-year-old software developer living and working in ██████ and a lifelong New Hampshire resident.…

The WordPress webcam plugin I started almost a year ago is now live on the updated Lake Wentworth Association web site. There were a good number of bugfixes made before this release as well as proper handling of differences in timezones between the WordPress blog and the server it’s hosted on.…

Note to self: generating a Django SECRET_KEY value when using a skeleton project (not starting from django-admin.py startproject). This is from the startproject management command source:…

By default, Django makes every attempt to hide template errors from the user. This makes sense in a production environment where you don’t want a simple empty variable to cause your site to blow up. It can, however, cause trouble because you won’t see those swallowed errors in any admin email notifications.…

We set up the first webcam for the Lake Wentworth Association (LWA) web site at least seven or eight years ago. It started with one of those old, beige eyeball webcams, which soon gave way to our old tape-based video camera hooked up through a TV tuner card.…

Dear SeacoastOnline.com,

If you want to make money with your new payment model, consider hiring a web developer who could create a real login system to protect your content. All it takes is a few lines of JavaScript (four to be exact) in a bookmarklet to disable the current content “protections” and read an article.…

BuyThisBeer.com is a little project I started to keep track of what beers I’ve tried, what beers I liked and didn’t, and what beers I’m seeking out. Right now there’s not much to it, but it gives me an opportunity to play with new technologies and techniques (there’s no fun in repetition, but there is in self-improvement).…

I’m not a web designer. I’ll admit that. I do, however, appreciate how a good design can aid the development process. When I’m slicing a site, I’m often working with Photoshop files of the home page and a sample inner page, assuming the two layouts are different.…

With Django 1.2 being released a couple months ago now, I figured it was the perfect time to upgrade and check out the new features. Nothing is ever that easy. After spending too many hours last weekend chasing a mysterious attribute exception with my application and finding no Google results on it, I finally traced it back to a dirty build directory in my Django checkout.…

When building sites that handle dynamic data, it’s important to make sure that all HTTP requests are both intentional and authentic. Addressing the first issue is the easier of the two: requests that retrieve data should use the GET method while requests that modify data should use the POST method.…