Posts Tagged ‘coding’

AJAX attacks and how to mitigate against them

Excellent post on The Register entitled Reduce your exposure to AJAX threats, which talks about three pieces of advice you need to keep in mind when developing AJAX applications. There’s nothing new in terms of security principles, just an application to the fact that a good portion of AJAX applications...

Forays into AJAX

I’ve recently had the opportunity to learn more about AJAX. For those unfamiliar with the term, it’s a web technique whereby web pages can make asynchronous calls to backend services to present functionality to the user without having to refresh the page all the time. I did this while developing...

PHP – Want to create a graph?

Last night I wanted to create a WordPress widget for my brother in law, Randolph who has decided to ask people who ask him what he wants for Xmas to donate cash towards his new laptop. It’s a bit rough as I can’t really dedicate time to it at the...

Dealing with cross-browser issues

It can be pretty frustrating to design a website that’s perfect in your client’s eyes only to find that it doesn’t work in a different browser to the one you developed it in. That’s why it makes sense to test as early as you can in as many different browsers...

VB.Net tip

Some of you might have noticed that there’s less “low-down-dirty” coding related posts on this blog of late. It’s probably because my job role has become more business-driven, change-agenty, people-focused as of late. However, I’ll take a break from the posts on Management Strategy, Debt Negotiation, Risk and Segmentation and...

Isle of Man Webcams

There has been a rush of interest in webcams around the Isle of Man because of this TT Centenary, and I was getting bored of rotating through a number of different pages to see what’s going on. So I put together a page with the top 6 cameras around the...

phpMailer issue on IIS

I’ve just spent some time figuring our an issue I’ve had with PHPLinkDirectory running on IIS. I’m building a new directory site for SearchMann and decided to use an off-the-shelf package for doing this. The biggest problem I’m finding is that the majority of phpLD’s user base run the package...

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