In a rare moment when Twitter was up Ivo Jansch put me on to one of his recaps of php|tek and I was particularly interested in a presentation by Terry Chay. If you haven't heard Terry talk there are two things you will leave with:
Some have asked for the slides on the talk I gave at work about Cross Site Request Forgeries (CSRF). The topic is far from new but where I work keeping everybody on the same page, especially a healthy dose of contractors coming and going all the time. The talk had a lot...
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Yes, I know you get what you pay for and for my desktop pleasure Kubuntu has been a damn good Linux desktop. Any Linux distro is rough around the edges in various spots but Kubuntu has a lot less of these rough edges than most distros I've driven. That said,...
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At work we are using Jitterbit a lot for a number of uses. I'm going to save the discussion on what Jitterbit is as you can read that for yourself. So you have Ubuntu, Kubutu or some other Debian-based Linux distribution and you'd like to get the Jitterbit client working, right?...
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I've been sucked into using Yahoo! for my personal email using a personalized domain (this one). What can I say, I love the YUI-eye candy goodness. But still there is lots of room for improvement. First, never mind the fact you can't use IMAP nor if you upgrade your Yahoo! service...
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A couple of weeks ago the folks at the DC PHP Conference announced the speakers for the 2008 installment of the conference held at George Washington University and yours truly was selected as one of the speakers. We're talking PHP celebs like Chris Shiflett,
In working on the Geeklog 2 codebase, much of work forms the basis for stuff I do at work, I finally figured it was time to add handling for CSRF to the codebase in a way that forces it's use without the developer having to explicitly do anything. In my experience...
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If you are were born-and-raised in Iowa (regardless if you live there now) you need to give this movie clip by Chris Pirillo a listen. As a Iowa bred and born techie I am literally torn on his take on Iowa and technology. The reality is if it weren't for...
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I know I say it a lot but I love Twitter. Through Twitter, which is now an indispensable part of my life, I learned that one PHP-guru, Cal Evans, is a podcaster. Why don't I already know this...long story but it basically evolves around the fact I get frustrated with...
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Ok, so ever since my openSUSE 10.2 to 10.3 upgrade I've been manually running "compiz-manager" to get compiz+emerald running. Today I finally got pissed enough to do something about it. First of all, it doesn't help one bit there are like a thousand wiki entries on the openSUSE site all instructing...
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