The server should log to a file.

the python logging module looks interesting: :)
http://docs.python.org/tutorial/stdlib2.html#logging

Decide whether we should use:

• Django + MySQL / PostgreSQL
• Rails + MySQL / PostgreSQL
• Javascript + JQuery + Mustache + 'Some server language X' + CouchDB / MongoDB

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/958258/anyone-not-using-a-web-framework-why

Do it!

The client threads should really close the sockets after a timeout, so that blocking clients wont hang.

Problem: If a client speaking to the server is blocking, the NerdHandler will hang to. All the way until the client closes the connection.
The control of the socket should be on the server side, not the challenge side.

Solution:
A) Implement a timeout for each NerdHandler, and kill the NerdHandler after f.ex: 2s

For killing a thread, see:
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/tutor/2001-June/006702.html

When the web-interface is up, it should provide an entrypoint for reaching the next level when a challenge is cleared.
Here it should be required to submit the code. Then the next level unlocks on the server.

This auto-generated link should be sent with the "correct / Inncorect"

To create this challenge we need a map where we can get from a point start to a point goal with several paths. We will need to keep track of the number of steps used to get to the goal, and if the goal was reached. The client will be sending move instructions(ex 1), and the server should return current position in the map as an ascii map(ex 2).

ex1:
input: ↑←↓→→→→→

ex2

S###0##0

#00000000

0##0##0

#00##0##0
#0##00#00
#0##0000
#00#0##00

0000##0

G

Decide whether we should use:

• MySQL
• PostgreSQL
• CouchDB
• MongoDB
• Django
• Rails
• Javascript + Mustache + 'Some server language X'

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/958258/anyone-not-using-a-web-framework-why