I like the sound of Cuil- all the goodness of their ex-employer without the digital footprint. Their privacy page reads: Privacy is a hot topic these days, and we want you to feel totally comfortable using our… Read More »Your history is your business, not ours
I’m really glad I got the opportunity to attend this event. It’s given my own research and writing a bit of a boost, but its also shown me just how important advances in this field are. On… Read More »Advances in Computer Security and Forensics Conference
As its still in development, I’ve set the drag n’ drop captcha mechanism to report failures in full as well as forwarding legitimate responses.I’ve had the first (update: two now) such failure notice from a live… Read More »First spam attempt on Drag n’ Drop captcha
I finally have this released into production environments which will no doubt help me to improve it. There’ve been some updates to the mechanism to dissociate image filenames from the puzzle fields. Next I need… Read More »Drag n’ Drop captcha updated
Yesterday I learned that all our RSS feeds fail to render in IE7. This was a surprise, as feeds are often the least worrysome areas of output, normally bypassing rendering and compatibility issues. IE7 reported:… Read More »IE7: RSS no DTD
My article on using requestAction() and custom layouts to add XHR functionality in CakePHP is now live on the Bakery. This tutorial outlines a method for creating or modifying Cake apps that work swiftly for XHR(XmlHTTPRequest)-enabled clients and degrades well… Read More »CakePHP article on adding XHR
Not being able to change the boot options on most machines in the office, I needed a quick n’ dirty way to run a Gnoppix LiveCD on my machine. Enter VMWare… Open VMWare, create a… Read More »Gnoppix through VMWare
How important are Website statistics? Increasingly we hear about the importance of our personal information to marketers, companies and other organisations, but is that information worth more than the actions we might perform – whether… Read More »Ethics in Web Statistics
It turns out that the SpeedDial extension for Firefox not only gives you regularly updated screenshots of the sites you add, but they’re scrollable too. Damned useful for photo sites.
If you’re reading this post on the main index page, then it’s being styled by a new plugin for posts in the WordPress Loop, calling an alternate loop include based on their category. It’s called Category Style.… Read More »Inline Category Style for WordPress