John McCollum

Logitech Trackman Review

Logitech TrackmanThe Logitech Trackman Wheel Trackball Mouse (to give it its full, silly title) is an entry level trackball input device. I recently picked one up in an attempt to combat some soreness I’d been experiencing in the wrist area after a long day’s work!

I chose this device because it was competitively priced (just £24.99 from play.com) and I didn’t want to spend any more than that without knowing how I would react to a different type of input device. Read More…

Posted in general at September 11th, 2010. No Comments.

Nominations open in the Packt Open Source Awards 2010


Nominations are available in the following categories:

  • Open Source CMS Award
  • Hall of Fame CMS
  • Most Promising Open Source Project
  • Open Source E-commerce Applications
  • Open Source JavaScript Libraries
  • Open Source Graphics Software

You don’t have to vote in all categories; this year, I’ll be voting in three:

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Posted in web development at September 2nd, 2010. 1 Comment.

My 10k AEA app

I recently wrote an entry for 10k Apart, the competition to create a web app in 10k or less. You can see my entry here.

The code comes in at about 8k all in, and I have to thank my colleague Allan for the graphics!

Posted in Uncategorized at August 22nd, 2010. No Comments.

A new domain and a new host

There are big changes afoot!

I have a new domain (loving the new URLs!), new hosting, and a bit of a change of colours on the blog.

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Posted in Linux, general at August 15th, 2010. No Comments.

Disable CSRF protection for Django 1.2

One of the major changes to Django 1.2 was the automatic switching-on of CSRF protection. I ran into some problems today, hitting the following error.

Forbidden (403)
CSRF verification failed. Request aborted.

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Posted in Django, web development at July 5th, 2010. 4 Comments.
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