Logging in the cloud for free with Heroku and Mongolab

A few weeks ago I get very pissed of by the new interface of Delicious and by their way of handling the switch to (another) new owner (they lost my bookmakrs and found then again, then they lost my password but where unable to let me reset it for two …

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Facebook comments on your site

News spreading about Google indexing Facebook comments inspired my to add them to this blog.

Many tutorials are around, but none seem to work in my case; I don't use Wordpress and the code generated by the Facebook developer page seems not to work either.

So, here it is how …

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Quick and dirty backup of your Facebook statuses

For a reason that will be too long to be explained here, today I wanted to look for one of my old Facebook statuses. Even if it turned out that there are Facebook applications (mystatuses is an example) that allow you to list all of your statuses, the hacker that's …

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An enum type for Jinja templates

I'm using the very nice Flask framework for a small project of mine (I'll blog about in few weeks) and started using the very handy Jinja templating engine.

At some point, I needed to have a kind of enum type in the engine, sometihng I can test with

{% if status …
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