Yum. The hamburger restaurant with a menu that boasts unhealthy foods.
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The Heart Attack Grill
Avail Request Object in Django Form Validation
It may sometime happen that to validate a form field you need to check the value with some existing value from the database related to the User or some other entity. But sadly Django doesn’t allow accessing the Request object in the clean() or clean_<FieldName>() methods. Here is a way around it - [Read more...]
Setup Bridged Network inside VirtualBox on Debian/Ubuntu
I cannot stay away from Terminal. 
So I was setting up a debian box inside my Windows installation. I downloaded a net installation image of Debian 6.0.3 (debian-6.0.3-i386-netinst.iso) and booted into it in VirtualBox. Well, while installing it, VB was in NAT mode and I didn’t notice that. So the installer configured the OS according to NAT mode and I had the network connection after I logged in. But as I wanted to run few server applications, I needed the OS to use a bridged connection. So I opened the network configuration of VB, changed it to Bridged Adapter mode, selected by adapter, hit Ok, then restarted the network service in the box and tried to ping google. But got error. The network wasn’t working.
Where The F*ck Should You Go For Drink?
In India? Wanna have some drink but dunno where to go? Well, Here is a portal to help you with that.
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Geek or Nerd? Know The Difference.
Found this Infographic and thought about sharing. Read it and know the difference.
PHP Console Inside Your Browser
I was looking for a tool where I can write a little snippet in PHP and test it out/debug really quickly. First thought of something like these online compilers, like IDEONE. But it’s too heavy for my taste. I needed something faster. Yesterday, came across this blog post from Jordi Boggiano, who saved some work of mine(and lot of other developers) and made a tool that can run inside your browser, and let you run and debug PHP codes with ease, and it’s also FAST. [Read more...]
Manage Your Cloud Server Easily Using Virtualmin
A friend of mine owns an AWS(Amazon Web Services) account and wants to run an EC2(Elastic Compute Cloud) instance for his domain. But the problem is, he is not much technically sound to handle the Ubuntu server himself. A solution like cPanel is much better for him because then he can just click and have stuffs done, without writing a single line of command. But sadly, cPanel aint free. So is there any free alternative? I searched a bit and found that Webmin and its derivative Virtualmin matches the criterion perfectly. [Read more...]
A Quick Tour to World of Programming
An infographic on the world of programming. How it began and who all carried it to where it is now.
WeekEndHack: The New Thing in Town!
Ever since I came from Yahoo! Open Hack India, I’ve been craving for more nights like the one I had in Bangalore. Couldn’t just shake that excitement off. It was too much to ignore. So I have been looking for a way to do that again.
To those who are new to this idea of Hack-nights, No this is _Not_ the usual meaning of the word “Hack” you come across. To us, “Hack” means – to build something in a very short time with whatever tools you have with you, breaking them apart and fixing them in an unique way to solve a certain purpose.
As a developer, no wonder I found it pretty interesting and was looking for a way to bring it to the town, our Kolkata, where a tech event is as rare as a Pink moon. :-/ [Read more...]
