See you at PyCon in Montreal this weekend
By Asheesh Laroia - 06 Apr 2015
I’m hoping to see you in Montreal at PyCon 2015! I’m co-speaking at a talk and a tutorial. I’ll also be eager to talk to people about Sandstorm and self-hosting servers.
Last year, I co-gave a talk about turning your computer into a server with Karen Rustad. Here’s what it looked like when one of my friends surprised me by changing the data we were showing during a live demo:
That Lol is supposed to say Django. Thanks, Luke. Check out my expression of amusement masking horror.
I got compromised because the Django sample app I demo’d has a default admin account bundled with it, as part of the demo. The good news is if you’re using Sandstorm, the platform handles authentication & authorization for apps, so this sort of thing won’t happen to you. Plus, as you would expect, Sandstorm ships with no default passwords.
This year I’m co-leading a tutorial called Getting Comfortable With Web Security where we discuss all sorts of common security issues with web applications; Jacky Chang and Nicole Zuckerman are my co-presenters. I’m also sharing a stage with Philip James to answer the question, Type python, press enter. What happens?
I hope to see you there! Doubly so if you’re interested in a Sandstorm & server self-hosting Birds of a Feather session. Send an email to asheesh@sandstorm.io!