My online tech scrapbook where I keep my notes in case I need to look them up later
Friday, January 17, 2014
Eclipse Ant JRE
Changing the JRE settings in Eclipse preferences won't affect the JRE version used by Ant. To change it, you need to right click the build file in the Ant view, click "Run As" and then click "External Tools Configurations", and then change the JRE from there.
Monday, January 13, 2014
AWS SES Regions/Endpoints
Apparently for the AWS Simple Email Service, there is only one region and one endpoint for SMTP / HTTPS: http://docs.aws.amazon.com/general/latest/gr/rande.html#ses_region
Saturday, January 4, 2014
Email Max Length
The max length of an email, apparently, is 254.
Reference here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/386294/what-is-the-maximum-length-of-a-valid-email-address
Reference here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/386294/what-is-the-maximum-length-of-a-valid-email-address
Friday, January 3, 2014
Designing Validation Rules for Names
Seems like there's no hope of ever getting it right: http://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-names/
But still, I'm sure for the sanity of the app and where applicable, other users, certain rules can/should be applied on a case-by-case basis:
But still, I'm sure for the sanity of the app and where applicable, other users, certain rules can/should be applied on a case-by-case basis:
- Length limits because you simply can't design a website with any length of name possible
- Character limits in situations where names have to be readable by majority of users (e.g. restrict to ASCII or extended ASCII)
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