Programming

I had briefly looked at Yahoo’s third version of the YUI library back when they announced Preview Release 1, but didn’t spend too much time on it since it’s still a bit in the future. After watching Eric Miraglia and Matt Sweeney’s presentation “YUI 3: A Look Ahead”, I’m quite excited about some of […]

Recently at work I’ve been learning Ruby on Rails, and I have to say I really love it.
I’ve been developing a database for a project for one of our clients. I had more or less finished developing the project using Ruby on Rails when the client informed us that the server the site will […]

A post over at NewOrder.box.sk entitled The web has never been more insecure: Google code search makes a great point about Google’s new source code search, it’ll make it easier for attackers to find exploitable flaws in open source projects. It’s kind of scary… but on the other hand lets hope some of the […]

I just found this neat project on Source Forge:
Alchemi is an open source software framework that allows you to painlessly aggregate the computing power of networked machines into a virtual supercomputer (desktop grid) and to develop applications to run on the grid.
Of course even if you are able to come up with a project that […]

I’ve just found a bug in Gamespot’s validation code. In order to download some content, such as certain videos from Gamespot.com you must first sign up for a free account on their site. When you try to download something from the site it checks your age (calculated using the birth date you provided […]

I’ve just found a bug in Gamespot’s validation code. In order to download some content, such as certain videos from Gamespot.com you must first sign up for a free account on their site. When you try to download something from the site it checks your age (calculated using the birth date you provided […]

There seems to be little documentation on certain aspects of Wordpress. One such under-documented thing is the global variables available. Luckily, Abhijit Nadgouda has complied a list of the Wordpress global variables, the list links to any known documentation.

Recently I’ve been lucky enough to catch a couple of different lectures on UWTV given by Google employees talking about some of the technologies that Google uses behind the scenes. Being a geek I’ve enjoyed them quite a bit and found a great resource for learning more about their tech, Google Labs has a […]