Howto add CSRF protection with PHP
Date: 04/24/2012 · Filed under: Programming
CSRF attacks are something I've never seen myself, but sometimes you wonder if they could be used to cause serious harm in your application. Today I decided to add CSRF protection, and publish it for the benefit of the community.
WWF forks PDF
Date: 12/12/2010 · Filed under: Computers
WWF has forked PDF to create a non-printable document format. Most likely they didn't know PDF documents can prevent printing.
Refactoring graphs
Date: 07/30/2010 · Filed under: Programming
Is refactoring easy to spot? According to graphs drawn from commit logs for the framework my blog is based, it is.
Thoughts on Rewriting
Date: 04/02/2010 · Filed under: Programming
There are so many projects out there being rewritten from scratch, you'd think it's a good idea. I think it's not.
Data URIs
Date: 02/11/2010 · Filed under: Programming
The data URIs allow inlining linked documents. Recent experiences show that the benefit they offer is limited.
Reading
Learning the World by Ken MacLeod. The novel is about first contact written in the perspectives of both sides - a primitive species, and the advanced human race.