Monthly Archives: September 2007

HX-20

By docwhat | Published: 2007-09-30
I was walking through Squirrel Hill today with Robin and my Dad. There was a house with some junk on their porch and a sign saying, “For sale. $1 each.” I looked through the stuff and found an Epson HX-20! Oh. My. Gawd! When I was in High School a guy named Randy had a [...]
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Mashups and JavaScript Security

By docwhat | Published: 2007-09-28
I found this excellent video of Douglas Crockford (discoverer of JSON) talking about the security problems inherent in Mashups and of JavaScript as a whole. He proposes a solution involving what he calls vats; a self contained JavaScript interpreter with limited communication to the page. The JavaScript in the page would be the only trusted [...]
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Wordpress User-Agent

By docwhat | Published: 2007-09-24
Well, I just got a nasty shock! I got in at the tail end of a thread about the new update notification feature in WordPress 2.3. One of the comments I read kept ricocheting around in my head. Matt Mullenweg said something about the dashboard RSS feeds transmitting my blog URL. I thought, initially, that [...]
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Site Redesign

By docwhat | Published: 2007-09-23
I have redesigned my whole site. While a lot changes are visual, there are even more changes in the way the unseen back-end parts have changed. Previously, I had a modified copy of the default WP 2.x theme (which is based on Kubric theme). It was reasonable markup, but I spent a lot of time [...]
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