Django 1.x brought with it much finer grained control over the admin application with admin forms and inline form sets. However, I still keep running into the same problem that I have since I started using Django – you cannot provide a limited queryset for a select field that depends on other instance variables. Read more…
A recently posted question on Stack Overflow highlighted a common misconception about the role of pointers and arrays held by many programmers learning C.
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The Web module’s default session storage engine uses serialized contexts in the /tmp directory. The advantage of this method is that, apart from the directory (which is customizable), it is reasonably platform independent and has low overhead. The disadvantages of this are numerous. Files are stored unencrypted, so anyone with access to the server may view them. It is therefor advantageous to design a custom storage module for sessions. Read more…
One problem from which newLISP suffers is the lack of a really useful library for web-based applications. The official CGI module has serious enough problems to justify an entirely new library. After some thought, I decided moreover that the request and response modules that I designed were neither practical nor sufficient. To that end, I have designed a new, monolithic library to provide the essential functionality required for web programming. Read more…
Thanks to Andrew Pennebaker for pointing out where the decoder was broken. This update includes a complete rewrite of the JSON decoder. It is now slightly more forgiving and much more accurate. You can download it here or upgrade using nl-install.
