grant watson - software engineer

Coding Horror: Cross-Site Request Forgeries and You
understand how cross-site request forgery, also known as XSRF or CSRF, works. It's not complicated, necessarily, but it's more.. subtle.. than XSS.
(tags: security programming software development web)

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Generate Slugs from Strings with PHP — Timblog
If your PHP script is fed a string that you want a similar slug from, you can use this handy one-liner, with $string being the string that you want to slug.
(tags: php utils)

http://mashable.com/2008/09/19/top-wordpress-themes/
This is a collection of our top 12 in no particular order. Check them out. While [...]

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Ajaxload - Ajax loading gif generator
Generate Ajax loading bars!
(tags: ajax javascript design)

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HOWTO: Take jaw-dropping photos with a mid-grade digital camera and worklights - Boing Boing
Ray gets tremendous results in his modest garage photography studio. Ray's process has been perfected with considerable trial and error, but surprisingly little money.
(tags: photography tutorial photos camera howto)

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What Your Global Neighbors Are Buying - Interactive Graphic - NYTimes.com
How people spend their discretionary income – the cash that goes to clothing, electronics, recreation, household goods, alcohol – depends a lot on where they live.
(tags: information visualisation graphics economics trends mapping design)

Just Good Clean Fun » Blog Archive » How to add recent Wordpress [...]

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Shifting Mind » Postalicious
Postalicious is a WordPress plugin that automatically posts your delicious, ma.gnolia, Google Reader, Reddit, or Yahoo Pipes bookmarks to your blog. The exact details of how your bookmarks are posted is very customizable and is designed to meet your specific needs.
(tags: wordpress delicious plugin)

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Adobe - Adobe AIR for Ajax Developers
The new Adobe AIR runtime enables Ajax developers to build rich Internet applications (RIAs) that deploy on the desktop.
(tags: programming software development ajax)

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TED | TEDBlog: Africa's brain drain may have hidden benefits
A new report titled "Is Brain Drain Good for Africa?", suggests two upsides. Remittances have become a meaningful part of some African economies. A significant number of expatriates eventually return home to work, envigorated by exposure to global markets and ideas, and often charged with [...]

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Google Chrome
Comic book description of how Google Chrome has been designed, implemented and tested.
(tags: google browser comics)

Coding Horror: Protecting Your Cookies: HttpOnly
HttpOnly cookies are a great idea, and properly implemented, make huge classes of common XSS attacks much harder to pull off.
(tags: security javascript hacking programming software development)

Twitter Define Rules on Spam and Commercial Usage
Twitter [...]

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