Monthly Archives: June 2002

I consider myself something of a security geek. I work for a security company, I develop applications that require security, I’ve written authentication mechanisms before, etc… So I was happy to run across OWASP. Goodness knows most web application developers wouldn’t know a good hash function if it bit them, let alone input validation, so [...]

High performance back-end for the pyMail app is now in CVS. The new back-end requires a daemon process (server.py) that runs a multi-threading Unix Domain Socket server that caches POP mailbox connections. It’s all written in Python and was quite simple to develop (the SocketServer library rocks, too bad it’s documentation doesn’t). Hopefully this should [...]

Good stuff for the usability minded. Web applications tend towards unusable mazes when they are nothing more pretty front ends for tables in an RDBMS. Using a bit of application logic to present good choices and sane defaults can make a users life immeasurably easier.

Sublime.

Spot on.