Category Archives: programming

windows batch scripting kung fu

June 25, 2008 – 20:08

When you’re stuck with oldskool Windows batch scripting, you can get the feeling your being transported back in time to the DOS age where New Wave was popular and Bill Gates was looking like a geek. Well, yeah, he still looks like a geek, but at least New Wave is dead, thought the haircuts where [...]

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a security tip from a pro

March 30, 2008 – 13:34

“painted master” by Darwin Bell,
cc-licensed
Security is something you should know a few things about as an application programmer. In fact, if there is one thing you should know is that you don’t know jack about security, or at least not much.
When it comes to down to figuring out your own security scheme there is one [...]

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slightly fixed

December 1, 2007 – 18:45

Things that suck: having to change your permalinks.
They’re called permalinks for a reason, but if for some unknown reason you keep getting CGI errors on the old links you can’t just keep that setting can you? So now I’m using the old and ugly WP default permalink structure again, linking to a post using it’s [...]

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akismet pwnz spam

January 14, 2007 – 18:50

You might or might not have heard about Akismet before, but in case you haven’t let me tell you that that little Wordpress plugin is simply a godsend.
Even a small blog like mine isn’t small enough to stay out of the cross hair of the evil spammers on the internet. I just noticed once [...]

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