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Re: Show HN: Coding noob - first weekend project

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Post by dfox »

Sephr wrote: post #32

The email address validation is incorrect. Neither test+foo@gmail.com, test+foo@gmail.com., test@io, test@io., test@::123, test@[::123], or test@[::123]:456 are accepted, and likely other cases. I suggest you take the easy route and just only check `emailAddress.indexOf("@") !== -1`.

There are SMTP addresses that are perfectly valid, non-local and yet does not contain '@'. But in practice that could be probably ignored.

But if you want to verify email address, then going with must contain '@' is probably one of the more reasonable routes (you should probably also ban few characters like newlines and ';').

Re: Show HN: Coding noob - first weekend project

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Post by d_mcgraw »

augustflanagan wrote: post #29
d0m wrote: post #27

I think every programmer made their own task manager at least once in their life.. welcome aboard :) Also, don't be to hard on yourself, creating a real project from scratch takes time and passion. I understood in half a second what your app was about and why I should use it.. What many apps/site cannot even do in weeks :) Finally, I like the idea about adding/removing stuff by replying by email.. so intuitive but I…

Thanks a lot for the feedback. I like the idea of having some sort of scheduling/reminder feature. I was wondering if I could set up a simple way to do SMS reminders. There could be a special code to set an SMS reminder (like * SMS 7pm) to get a reminder at 7pm. That was a friend's idea though so I can't take credit for it ;)

First off, great weekend project.

While Twilio would be a surefire way to do it. You can also hack up a small script that will use sms gateways to send the email, but then you would have to know the person's carrier in advance. I find this way more interesting, but not nearly as robust. You can do some interesting things when you are sending text messages through gateways.

Re: Show HN: Coding noob - first weekend project

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Post by endlessvoid94 »

bmelton wrote: post #49
endlessvoid94 wrote: post #12

Great job! I also used GAE to build ThatHigh.com and it's working pretty well. But like you're probably aware, GAE has a learning curve in addition to python/django/whatever. The datastore, mainly. This is a shameless plug, but I'm the co-founder of Djangy.com and we're in private beta. We're doing Heroku except for python/django. we'll support other wsgi frameworks in the future, but for now we make deploying almost…

Regarding Djangy (and all apologies for how offtopic this is), you REALLY need to give some idea of what pricing is going to be. The "only pay for what you use" statement only works when I have a relative idea of how much a given computational unit costs, or how much the average customer is paying. EC2 could make the same statement, but there's a huge difference between a small and medium instance, cost-wise.

Yeah, we're rolling out a ton of changes in the next week, so expect that. RE: pricing, it'll be comparable to heroku. I JUST finished building the billing system two days ago :-)

Re: Show HN: Coding noob - first weekend project

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Post by johnnytee »

ipince wrote: post #21
johnnytee wrote: post #2

Nice job! I just tested it out and it works great. I see you're using google app engine, I'm building a couple of apps on it and love working with. My platform of choice for sure.

Sorry for my n00b-ness, but how do people know he's using app engine? Edit: Oops.. I jumped straight to the app and only later noticed the "How I Built It" note on the post...

You can view the response headers for a page and GAE will list the server as "Google Frontend"
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