created 23 September 2009 in links tagged django and mailinglist.
I want to drive home the point that Earth is a very large place, and no matter where you are located, most of the world’s population isn’t anywhere near you - and no amount of technology will fix problems caused by the laws of physics
http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers/msg/f939...
created 09 March 2009 in links tagged limits, mailinglist, sms and twitter.
Twitter mailing list discussion on how long twitter messages actually are - 140 characters? 140 bytes? Which encoding? Are HTML entities escaped? The answers appear to vary based on where the message has got to through the caching system. Crazy.
To me, it seems that the 140 character limit derives from SMS message length, so obviously should follow the same rules as SMS messages do. But I don’t expect that those rules are actually written down anywhere.
http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/b...
created 19 November 2008 in notes tagged cms and mailinglist.
You really want your template language to automatically escape all strings unless they’re flagged as ‘I know this contains HTML and I know what I’m doing’. This stops many trivial forms of cross-site-scripting attacks.
You probably also want certain columns of your database to be annotated in such a way that your CMS doesn’t accidentally display them to users.
created 15 August 2008 in links tagged django, mailinglist and opinionated.
One thing we don’t want to get into is a situation common in more “modular” systems where introductory documentation ends with “Congratulations on getting the base system installed; here’s a list of five hundred components you can use, go pick the one you want because we refuse to take a stance on it.”
http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers/msg/4db5...
