WP-A: A New URL Shortener

[Daniel Wilcox]

I dare say I'm with Rick on this point -- keep it up, go learn stuff, put
things together and see how they break -- I think it's the best way to get
feel for how things fit together and, somewhat inevitably, fall over (when
the conditions they were designed in no longer apply).

*quick glance at source*
The raw SQL scares me a bit, there is a lot of escaping that you could add
to protect from sql injections (at least for mysql, sqlite I'm not sure).
And since you want to run this on the Internet I highly recommend putting a
mariadb/mysql database behind it.  Glancing over the Flash documentation
they seem to suggest SQLAlchemy which sounds like a reasonable choice for
an ORM.

An neat idea I've seen before that was neat was a sematic shorten-er where
you could specify the shortened URL to make it easy to remember and
reference.  A lot of security, aka input sanitation, involved but might be
fun -- and who knows it could spark a land rush to claim useful short URLs
like wp-a.co/flask-tips. :)

Speak up if you need any pointers!

Daniel

On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 12:56 PM, Vinicius Mesel <me at vmesel.com> wrote:

> Hey guys,
>
> I'm a 16 year old Python Programmer that wanted to do something different.
> But, like we know, ideas are quite difficult to find.
> So I decided to develop a URL Shortener to help the Python community out
> and share my coding knowledge, and today the project was launched with its
> first stable version.
> So if you want to see the software working, go check it out at:
> http://wp-a.co/
> Or if you want to see the source code to contribute and help the project:
> https://github.com/vmesel/WP-A.CO
>
>
> Hugs,
> Vinicius Mesel
> Brazilian and Portuguese Speaker
> http://www.vmesel.com
>
>
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