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Just finished reading a whitepaper on Web Based Session Management, worth a read. It lists the advantages and disadvantages of the three main forms of session management and common attacks.
Go forth and read!
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It’s been a long time since I’ve worked on VisEmacs.net for varied reasons, the biggest being that I’m still stuck using Visual Studio 6.0. I’ve watched VS2002, then 2003, ‘05 and now ‘08 get released and I had no itch to scratch.
But you’ve had one. And it’s time that itch was scratched!
Without much further ado, [...]
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Great post over at sourcemaking.com today, 40 Reasons Why Software Projects Die. One recent job I had suffered from many of these AntiPatterns, specifically
Death by Planning
Design by Committee
Irrational Management
Cover Your Assets
Project Mismanagement
Lava Flow
Mushroom Management
and so many more… it’s a great list and a good read if only so you can recognize these success-killers and avoid [...]
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There are times when I want to make a quick point without having to write an essay on the topic. Apparently there’s a whole meme of a blog within a blog, aka a sideblog or “asides”. I found a nice plugin that lets me do the same thing. I needed a name for this feature [...]
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Those guys over at 37signals have done it again and given us a nice shiny present for Christmas: Rails 2.0! Head on over to the Ruby On Rails weblog for the full details. The big feature for me is the debugger… it’s back! It’s just a
gem install ruby_debug
away! I’ll be [...]
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Excellent paper on HTTP Sessions
Just finished reading a whitepaper on Web Based Session Management, worth a read. It lists the advantages and disadvantages of the three main forms of session management and common attacks.
Go forth and read! (0)
Stretchy Designs
If you’re afraid of using em-based layouts, or just haven’t got around to using them in your designs, head on over to Jon Tan’s blog and read his great article, The Incredible Em & Elastic Layouts with CSS . He does a great job of demonstrating how easy it is to create an elastic layout in terms even engineers can understand. (1)
Is Google Evil? Here's Proof!
Many people wonder if Google is evil, despite their motto. But I have discovered proof that Google is Evil. See for yourself!
Why software projects die
Great post over at sourcemaking.com today, 40 Reasons Why Software Projects Die. One recent job I had suffered from many of these AntiPatterns, specifically
What's a Snow Flake?
There are times when I want to make a quick point without having to write an essay on the topic. Apparently there’s a whole meme of a blog within a blog, aka a sideblog or “asides”. I found a nice plugin that lets me do the same thing. I needed a name for this feature and since it’s just a little piece of Snowmoon Software, that “Snow Flake” would be a good name. Like it? Hate it? Leave a comment! (0)
