Category Archives: Open Source/Internet

Remind Me: Initial Data in a Django class-based Form

Posted on April 23, 2011 by Jeff Forman

I love Django‘s class-based way of handling forms. You name the class, articulate each field (data point of your form), and attach it to a view. Voila. But what happens when you want some initial data in the form? Initial … Continue reading →

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Boston Barcamp 6, Day Two

Posted on April 17, 2011 by Jeff Forman

Finally got this post out after having a bit of a busy week.   Location based networking, anurag wakhlu (coloci inc) http://goo.gl/mxAtd * location based apps: where are you now? or where will you be? * where are you now: … Continue reading →

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Barcamp Boston 6, Day One

Posted on April 10, 2011 by Jeff Forman

Having never been to a Barcamp before, I knew the overall structure of the conference, but was curious if I would actually like it. Truth be told, I found it full of content, without a lot of fluff, even for … Continue reading →

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You go here, you go there. Bending DHCP to your will.

Posted on February 28, 2011 by Jeff Forman

TL;DR: How to hand out DNS servers in different orders to different clients based upon MAC address. Background: I was connected into my office’s VPN a few months ago and was noticed some very slow DNS resolution of host names … Continue reading →

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Remind me: Configuring BIND9 plugin for Munin on FreeBSD

Posted on January 30, 2011 by Jeff Forman

I was attempting to get Munin working on a new FreeBSD machine, monitoring the rate of queries to a Bind9 DNS server. Every time I attempted ‘munin-run bind9′ I was presented with the same error: Digging around in the Bind9 … Continue reading →

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