Hello, my name is Federico Capoano,
I enjoy developing cutting-edge websites
and working with creative people.
9th January 2012 in Thoughts
On Saturday 21st of January 2012 the guys at Ninux.org will host a talk about PGP (GnuPG) criptography in Rome and they will guide new users to learn how to protect their data.
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30th September 2010 in Coding
The standard Django FileFields assume you want to upload a file in a subdirectory of MEDIA_ROOT, what if you want to upload the file in a private directory above the web root, not accessible via http?
How can you serve the files then?
continue reading "Django: Private File Upload and Serving"
24th September 2010 in Coding
Immagine that you need to add the possibility to upload a PDF or Zip file in the django admin, but you want to be sure your client will upload only these two filetypes and not other ones.
You might also need the same functionality in the frontend, so why not use "ModelForm" and have just one validation for both applications (admin and frontend)?
In this short post I'll share with you my simple solution.
continue reading "Django: FileField with ContentType and File Size Validation"
9th June 2010 in Thoughts
The web-world evolves and grow esponentially every day, web-designers and web-developers have to stay up to date in order to be competitive in their field. But designers and developers are not the only professionals who work in the web industry and no I am not talking about SEOs, Social Media Experts or whatever new definition has just come out.
In this post I want to talk about lamers. Did you think about it? Lamers also got to stay up to date with the continous growing of the web! Infact they just joined twitter and if you also received a mail like this one below it means that...
continue reading "When Lamers get Social: Fake Twitter Mails"
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