web development war stories from the frontlines to the backend

The Problem
I’m sure many have used PHP’s default session handling capabilities. By default, PHP uses the filesystem to store session data naming files with their session id # and putting them in /tmp.
This is done for the sake of simplicity. On a single-server, low load website, this particular setup works fine. It’s [...]

Read my previous two posts on Django and Python – Part I and Part II
I’ve been working on a project management tool suite in Django. It’s been a great side project to really experiment with Django in real-world scenarios.
Forms
At times I feel like I fight with newforms. In particular, it lacks the ability [...]

The ability to transfer data from one executing script to the next as components of a web application is of the utmost importance. Sometimes the objects in transit can grow in size to 10’s of megabytes of data. Nested classes, arrays of smaller classes, arrays of data, indexes, etc.
I’ve been on a pretty [...]

  

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