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Month: March, 2010

The Chatroulette phenomenon

I’m fairly certain that by now everyone knows what Chatroulette is, so I won’t introduce the concept. I just wanted to mention what has been happening over there in the last couple of months. About 2 months ago, I opened it up, and just saw a few people staring at their webcams, but mostly lots [...]

Modifying the regexp for usernames in django-admin

About a month ago, I built a centralized authentication backend using django-roa for my company, AUF. It’s actually a cascading authentication system, since I copy locally (in Django’s own authentication system) the account, once validated. That was working just fine, until I tried adding some of my users’ local accounts in different groups. The distant [...]

UVa

A while back, when I was a student in Paris, one of our teachers told us about some project from University of Valladolid (I can’t remember the actual name of the project), it was a contest for programmers, and the goal was to solve as many simple algorithmic problems as possible. At that time, I [...]