“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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
November 18, 2006 – 23:01
One thing I always find interesting as a programmer is to take a peek at other peoples source code. Sometimes this happens out of curiousity, to see how they solved a particular problem, or if their implementation kicks more ass than the one I thought of. Or simply to learn something new and excitingly different. [...]
February 27, 2006 – 22:54
I came across HTA (HTML Applications) a while ago and I have to say it’s kinda neat. In a way it’s not a big deal, but I didn’t know you could do this, and it really empowers you to write neat little apps fast by using JScript or VBScript and HTML, which is basic knowledge [...]
December 21, 2005 – 20:46
This GoGolian post pretty much says what I’ve been willing to put down in a rather sarcastic blogpost a while ago, after reading yet another post about how cool and revolutionary the whole AJAX/Web 2.0 thing really is. It’s not revolutionary, it’s just a bunch of old stuff in a new jacket that gets a [...]
September 13, 2005 – 12:17
Slashdot recently posted a link to this excellent article about the dumbest ideas in computer security. If you can avoid falling into the trap of the first three, you’re among the few true computer security elite. Definitely worth a read if you’re into anything related to computers and security, be it programming or network security. [...]
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