My development environment has consisted of a Windows Machine, a Mac Mini and a Linux box (running Cent OS) for a while now.
With the recent release of MySQL 5, I thought it would be amusing to both begin upgrading my development boxes and also install PHP+MySQL on all of the different machines to play [...]
XSS - Cross Site Scripting Circus
This is definitely the kind of thing that can keep you awake at night.
A gentleman from the site ha.ckers.org has posted a pretty well exhaustive list of Cross Site Scripting methods.
Invaluable information if you’re building a service that is taking in HTML or if you want to become the most popular person on [...]
Sticking Up for Flock
Flock released their “Developer Preview” with caveats and warnings written in a font size larger than the H1 of anyone else and lots of people seem to have taken them to task because it’s Not Ready for Primetime.
This doesn’t make any sense to me, it’s clearly labeled “Developer Preview”. It doesn’t say “Public Relations [...]
Off to Meet the Wozniak
I was accepted into Paul Graham’s one day, super compressed speaker conference and VC fest: Startup School.
Being “accepted” into the school makes it sound like it was harder than it was, you had to fill out a few text boxes online about what tools you used (PHP, MySQL) what projects you are working on [...]
Google Desktop vs FeedBurner
I reported this to FeedBurner directly this evening, but was wondering if anyone else had noticed a similar phenomenon.
My FeedBurner listing shows me as a huge hit with the Google Desktop crowd. So I installed GD and had my ego ground down a bit as apparently it just pulls in every feed it autodetects [...]
The Web 2.0 Superman Caper
People under the age of 30 may be more familar with it from OfficeSpace than from SuperMan III, but it was all I could think about when reading about Google Will Eat Itself.
In SuperMan 3, Richard Pryor comes up with the devious scheme to change the rounding functions of the bank’s mainframe so that the [...]
Open Source at 40 Dollars a Click.
Code may be Poetry, but nothing pays the bills like cash.
The ever present awesomeness of WordPress (on which this site runs) has a new link on the homepage.
It lays out the prices for sponsoring the WordPress homepage and if you’re not curious enough to click the aforementioned link, let’s just say it’s real [...]
IE 7 RSS Logos
Over on the Microsoft Team RSS Blog they have posted some of the possible new logos for indicating that the presence of RSS/Atom has been detected.
However, just like the highway billboards I see with text too small to read, that I’m sure looked really great in some pristine, well lighted board room. The icons [...]
Howto Steal Wikipedia
I stumbled on this weird Craigslist job posting for a Wikipedia RSS Feed Manager. I’ve pasted the contents below to safeguard the ad expiring.
A little investigation turned up something I hadn’t expected: Wikipedia doesn’t do RSS. Which isn’t precisely true, they offer a RSS Feed of their most recent changes, but that’s it. You [...]
Four Score and One revision ago…
Following in the grand tradition of the Articles of Configuration and the Declaration of Instant Messaging comes the much needed WikiConstitution .