Ever wondered how some of your favourite apps get hacked and broken into? This page lists lots of examples of database “injections”.
Like an injection you get off your doctor these bits of code inject database code into your application. The code can do anything – delete all your data, grab your passwords, or anything.
And if it happens to you, a nice doctor isn’t going to give you a lollipop.
Lurvely! This is a very neat method for removing Javascript from html pages! Embed it in the CSS! (sort of!)
He has a couple of examples on his page, and it looks easy enough in principle. The devil’s in the details don’t you know but it looks like it’s worth trying!
He’s a busy beaver too.. he has an MVC framework and tutorial that steps you through an example.
Among developers, design patterns are a popular way to think about design, but what is the proper way to think about design patterns? In this interview, Erich Gamma, co-author of the landmark book, Design Patterns, talks with Bill Venners about the right way to think about and use design patterns.
Making Wrong Code Look Wrong – I was away for 2 weeks, catching up on email only now!
Oh, this is so true!
We’re crazy about the details. We love the details. The space between objects. The perfect type leading. The perfect color. The perfect words. 4 lines of code instead of 7. The perfect flow. 90% vs 89%. 760px vs 750px. $39/month vs. $49/month. Success and satisfaction is in the details.
However, success isn’t the only thing you’ll find in the details. You’ll also find fixation, stagnation, disagreement, meetings, and delays. These poison projects. These are the things that kill morale (and if morale is low, your chance of success is even lower). You want to avoid these at all costs. If you procrastinate, procrastinate the details.
Usability testing can be daunting and goes overlooked in the rush to get things out the door, but it’s important, if somewhat hard on the egos of developers when their super-duper ideas are torn down and trodden on!
See the great comic too! hehe.
Optimising MYSQL – several good points here. I more than doubled the queries per second after reading this and doing further research on the topics covered.
It appears that Easter is at the end of March this year…
echo Easter is `echo 2005 '[ddsf[lfp[too early]\
Pq]s@1583>@ddd19%1+sg100/1+d3*4/12-sx8*5\
+25/5-sz5*4/lx-10-sdlg11*20+lz+lx-30%d[30+]s\
@0>@d[[1+]s@lg11<@]s@25=@d[1+]s@24=@se44le\
-d[30+]s@21>@dld+7%-7+[March ]smd\
[31-[April ]sm]s@31<@psnlmPpsn1z>p]splpx' | dc`
(Thanks to Stewie for that scary nugget of code!)
How Does One Keep Up? – how many computer languages and concepts have you learned and abandoned in your career? How often do you think you’ll do the same in the future?
Unless you work on Cobol then you’re probably like me and Tom and you’ve gone through several iterations – 6502, 8×86, 68000 Assembly, Pascal, C, C++, PHP, etc etc..
It scared me at one stage but now it’s fascinating.. all this new stuff to learn and find out about! Woo!
This article on technomasochism is more relevant to all you UI watchers.. how much pain will users put up with? Quite a lot in my experiences!
