December 2007
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Misapplying book terms, Pylons, and the 'end-user'
On the Internet, I frequently see terms misapplied to other contexts. Whether its a basic definition misapplied to a different realm, or an analogy grossly misapplied to a context that is not in fact similar. Since this particular term ‘conceptual integrity’ however was used as a beating stick on Pylons, I felt it’s something worth discussing.
First, its very useful to actually understand...
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Beaker 0.9, cookie-stored sessions, and crypto
In the latest 0.9 release of Beaker, I’ve finally added cookie-side session storage. I was a little bit moved to finally do this by seeing that Rails 2.0 had added cookie-side session storage, and heck if I was going to miss out!
A few changes from how Rails 2 did it though, I was definitely not content to store all the data in an end-user visible form in the cookie. That only left encryption...