I’ve finally had some time to write some new and exciting code.  Firstly, I’ve created a AJAX chat room at http://www.findthehotties.com/chat/.  The eventual goal is to integrate the chat room with Find the Hotties.  Please don’t kill it right now.  It’s open to XSS attacks and spam bots .  Speaking of that, what’s the best way to stop bots from posting, besides requiring logging in?

Secondly, I whipped up a quiz application at http://www.findthehotties.com/quiz/ for Thor’s UI class.  Hopefully that will prove useful to somebody.  The XML document I got the questions from was rather difficult to parse.  It contained some odd characters that MySQL didn’t like.  To resolve the issue we were forced to convert the file to ANSI, then back to UTF-8.  I hate encodings.  Even Joel’s famous article on encodings didn’t prepare me for this.  On the plus side, I got to learn to use one of Python’s XML parsers.

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