So I wrote some code the other day. It sat in my code repository and I never tested it. I was pretty certain it was going to be some good code, though. (more…)

In regards to the Data in URL scheme (RFC here), I’ve found an interesting issue with the way firefox handles it which could lead to some XSS I think. (more…)

I don’t want to admit it - but I messed up. I didn’t patch wordpress - and I was a victim of one of the released wp exploits. How could you let this happen? you ask. Well, I was lazy. But let this be a lesson to ya - don’t forget - otherwise its a LOT harder to clean it up (it took me roughly 4 hours to fix which included 2 hours of ignoring... (more…)

As a reference for myself, I wanted to jot these things down. (more…)

This example is a proof-of-concept I worked on years ago when people first started talking about making 3D games with no images - CSS only. (more…)

I recently came across this tutorial here about Testing with TPTP- and I’m confused. Whats the benefit of this type of testing (um… creating JAVA code for a JUnit test… right?) compared to running some PHPUnit, Selenium and AB (from apache, or something…)? What am I missing - does anyone have any other good hands-on tutorials? (more…)

Working in a shop that has approximately 15 times more System-I as/400 iSeries (whatever you want to call it) programmers, I’ve been immersed into their culture, standards and mindset. (more…)

A while ago, I discovered the ‘joys’ of APD… and then more so, the ‘joys’ of not being able to make heads or tails out of the output script. After digging deeper, I saw that the original directory already had some PHP scripts to parse the output. I ran those and wasn’t very impressed. Even more important, my boss wouldn’t be impressed. I needed to be able to make something that could be useful to... (more…)

This particular example is going to be based on a connection from Windows XP using Putty, MySQL GUI tools and Dreamhost. (more…)

Normally I like to post content that I’ve actually written, but I can’t pass up linking to this article: How to write a spelling corrector. Its a great piece that explains the math behind the spelling correcting that Google, Yahoo, etc… do when you’re doing a search and gives code examples on how this is accomplished. Very great read! (more…)