How Attackers Go Undetected: Short talk at PAKCON III

I am posting a link to the talk I presented at PAKCON III, Pakistan’s Largest Underground Hacking Convention, at Pearl Continental, Karachi, on the evening of 26 July. The talk is titled How Attackers Go Undetected.

Uploading files via newforms in Django made easy.

I have already described creating custom fields with Django and shown how easy it can get. Today, I am going to show how to manage file uploading through newforms. I expended a good part of my morning and afternoon today reading up on Django and asking for help in #django on irc.freenode.net. [...]

Slackware 12

Guys, Slackware 12 is out. Michiel van Wessem has written a neat review of Slackware 12, which is published on The Slack World, thanks to Mikhail Zotov.

3rd blogging anniversary. Three years ago, I wrote my first …

I hadn’t noticed. Today marks the passing of three tiresome years of my blogging epoch. The thought of celebrating, however modestly, the first anniversary had never crossed me, and I ended up shamelessly forgetting about it last year and year before. I may well not have remembered today either, were it not [...]

Creating custom fields using Django’s newforms Framework

I simply adore Django’s newforms framework. Creating HTML forms and processing them, both of which, as any web developer would love to tell you with a grimace on their face, are extremely tedious and monotonous tasks, have never been easier with Django.
Part of the reason I like it is that each field in the [...]