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• 09:15:17 am on June 18, 2008 | 0 | # |
  
  

  “What we forget is that this ‘finishing school’ [XHTML] will actually SHOOT ANYONE THAT DOESN’T FOLLOW THE RULES.” –comment on James Bennett’s “Why HTML?”

   

• 08:30:13 am on May 28, 2008 | 0 | # |
  
  

  Jakob Nielsen on OK/Cancel order. I’ve ended up following Windows style (ugh) since activating the first submit button on enter submission seems to be an unofficial standard.

   

• 05:44:43 pm on May 5, 2008 | 0 | # |
  
  

  My old boss taught me the Post/Redirect/Get pattern informally, but I never learned its name until recently. If you don’t have some sort of session_printMessages() framework, I’d strongly encourage you to look into it; it’s great not having to put up “ZOMG PLEASE DO NOT USE YOUR BACK BUTTON” warnings.

   

• 04:04:57 pm on May 2, 2008 | 0 | # |
  
  

  We’re building a fancy modularized, templated framework based on Smarty. I’m a firm believer in Filter Input, Escape Output, so I’m working on making Smarty apply htmlentities by default, which seems like the XSS equivalent of SQL prepared statements. Have any of you ever tried an automated approach to XSS protection like this?

   

• 05:22:40 pm on April 30, 2008 | 1 | # |
  
  

  Finally got a chance to learn Google Charts, which I’ve been lusting after for months now. Rythym tester.

   

• 01:15:42 pm on April 28, 2008 | 0 | # |
  
  

  Good old posts from Joel on tech business: capturing consumer surplus, cheapening complements.

   

• 03:25:22 pm on April 25, 2008 | 0 | # |
  
  

  I put together a LAMP security overview for my writing class. Most of you probably know this stuff, but I think it’s a decent guide.

   

• 05:05:17 pm on April 10, 2008 | 0 | # |
  
  

  Firefox will support resumable downloads in 3.0.

  Time to research HTTP Range and 206 Partial Content.

   

• 05:01:40 pm on April 8, 2008 | 0 | # |
  
  

  What systems do and don’t do for you “cheaply” defines their character, and in many systems those choices aren’t made consciously.

  –Alex Russell of Dojo on Google Web Apps

   

• 11:31:42 pm on March 30, 2008 | 0 | # |
  
  

  Just got htmlpurifier r1635 approved with trivial changes. Ftw.

  $htmlpurifier->purify() is to htmlentities() as prepared queries are to mysql_real_escape_string().

   

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