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Project-Based, Support, and Salary Work: Exploring Different Work Structures
Back when I was a PC tech support specialist, system administrator, company-hired developer, and freelancer, I’ve come to identify three distinct types of work arrangements: project-based work, support work, and salary-based employment. Each comes with its own structure, expectations, advantages, and challenges. Here’s a deep dive into each of these categories to help you understand…
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Digital Signatures And PDF Signing
I am working on a project that requires PDF signing through a website. The current infrastructure includes Apache + PHP website available. What we need to achieve is integrate the digital signature module of a user visiting the website and sign the required files. One of the most appropriate solutions after the negotiations was signed applet that signs PDFs.…
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How To Create Unique Passwords For Every Site And Remember Them Easily?
In general It’s an algorithm that could be applied almost everywhere and requires no special skills. First of all, lets define the cons and pros for you so to be able to chose whether you would get the advantage or not. Cons depends on the particular site at some point (changes dependant) requires few seconds…
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Django Framework – First Impressions
I’ve been researching the Django framework for the last 2-3 weeks in my spare time. It’s development is going on and on and I see many interesting innovative concepts realised behind. I tried it 3 years ago for a course project when we had to integrate the PIL (Python Image Library) into a web project with the existing…
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Django Translations: Multilingual, i18n, App Names
Django is a popular web framework written in Python that provides dynamic generated content and allows rapid development for different systems in the Internet. It provides a great interface to other products (via web services), gives ability to design a scalable application and most important, lies on a powerful language as Python (in other words,…
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Forgotten Password In Django
Turns out that there are plenty of useful features in the Django admin that I never thought about. The other day I found the last task of a project of mine was adding the “Forgotten password” feature. It’s basically a standard task included in every users-related project, but the whole process requires few interactions: clicking…
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First Week With Croogo
It’s been my first week using Croogo – a CMS platform based on CakePHP and created by the Bangladesh developer Fahad Heylaal. Recently I’ve been looking for a next level platform in order to decrease development time and reduce wasting time for writing standard things from scratch such as menus, user controls (Auth+ACL), multilingual options…
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Some Hate Over Cake’s i18n
I’m really fond of CakePHP’s principles, but I’m too tired of its i18n features. For some reason internationalization, although one of the really major requirements for every framework or CMS, is implemented poorly in most of the systems I’ve worked with. Django had few disadvantages (but few strong points as well) with its django-multilingual, and…