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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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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Pelican to the rescue

So I have to blog, but what tool should come to the rescue? I decided to use Pelican a very nice static blog generator writte in Python.

You have to markup your text in reStructuredText, something I got used to when I decided to use Sphinx as a static web …

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