If you're a new programmer, where does everything fit? We should
have a nice guide to this!
One thing we need is a tutorial of sorts for programmers.

This guide should describe just very generally:


-  the routing
-  the views
-  the templates
-  the forms
-  the database/models

... and point to other pages for more specific information :)

(A good strategy might be to do a "walkthrough" of one of the
existing, clearly developed and simple views, from start to finish,
which uses all these pieces?)

Links are getting long quick wnen our ID's are mongodb ObjectID's.
e.g.
`http://omgmg.dyndns.org:6543/u/quietjenny/m/4e682b3f4cc6a55e4d0000dd/c/4e692f1f4cc6a55e4d000160/#comment <http://omgmg.dyndns.org:6543/u/quietjenny/m/4e682b3f4cc6a55e4d0000dd/c/4e692f1f4cc6a55e4d000160/#comment>`_

Comparison:

::

    base 16: 4e682b3f4cc6a55e4d0000dd  
    base 58: 1RlMoQ3FCeZSiuJO  
    and just for perspective...  
    base 10: 24265763280740767849856893149  
    want more perspective?  
    base 2: 10011 10011 01000 00101 01100 11111 10100 11001 10001 10101 00101 01011 11001 00110 10000 00000 00000 00110 11101

It does not really make a huge difference in size. But it's still
some.

::

    Regular link: [http://omgmg.dyndns.org:6543/u/quietjenny/m/4e682b3f4cc6a55e4d0000dd/c/4e692f1f4cc6a55e4d000160/#comment](http://omgmg.dyndns.org:6543/u/quietjenny/m/4e682b3f4cc6a55e4d0000dd/c/4e692f1f4cc6a55e4d000160/#comment)  
    base58      : [http://omgmg.dyndns.org:6543/u/quietjenny/m/1RlMoQ3FCeZSiuJO/c/1RlbRFH6rhl3jdX36/#comment](http://omgmg.dyndns.org:6543/u/quietjenny/m/1RlMoQ3FCeZSiuJO/c/1RlbRFH6rhl3jdX36/#comment)

If anyone has any other suggestions on how to keep the ID's in the
URLs as short as possible,
`this description of what a mongodb ObjectID consists of might be helpful <http://www.mongodb.org/display/DOCS/Object+IDs>`_.

Cheers

It should be changed so that comment URLs are

::

    /u/{username}/m/{slug}/c/{comment_id}/#comment instead of   
    /u/{username}/m/{media_id}/c/{comment_id}/#comment