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Check out one of the Python async web servers—Tornado, gevent, Twisted—and see if
you can use it to implement dynamic notifications.
To test it, you’ll need two browser instances (like we used for the list sharing tests), and
check that notifications of the actions from one appear in the other, without needing to
refresh the page…
Switch to Using py.test
py.test
lets you write unit tests with less boilerplate. Try converting some of your unit
tests to using
py.test
. You may need to use a plugin to get it to play nicely with Django.
Client-Side Encryption
Here’s a fun one: what if our users are paranoid about the NSA, and decide they no
longer want to trust their lists to The Cloud? Can you build a JavaScript encryption
system, where the user can enter a password to encypher their list item text before it
gets sent to the server?
One way of testing it might be to have an “administrator” user that goes to the Django
admin view to inspect users’ lists, and checks that they are stored encrypted in the
database.
Your Suggestion Here
What do you think I should put here? Suggestions please!
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