Recently, I worked on a Python project that required the whole codebase to be protected using Cython. Although protecting Python sources from reverse engineering seems like a futile task at first, cythonizing all the code leads to a reasonable amount of security (the binary is very difficult to disassemble, but …

Until recently, I've used pretty much the same LAMP environment I installed when I started with GNU/Linux. It had many drawbacks, the most important being cryptic configuration (hello, mod_rewrite) and the need to edit files as root when adding new applications using VirtualHosts. Also, running Python applications is quite …