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9th October 2007 - Link Blog

Two months with Ruby on Rails. Good rant—covers both the good and the bad. The first complaint is the lack of XSS protection by default in the template language. Django has the same problem, but the solution was 90% there when I saw Malcolm at OSCON.

Posted 9th October 2007 at 12:23 pm

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