FireSheep (http://www.codebutler.com/firesheep) is a firefox extension that allows anyone to snoop login information off of unsecured wireless connections. This includes, gmail, yahoo, cisco, foursquare, and facebook. It even gives you the ability...
HTTPS 2-minute timeout?
I have a process that includes running complex server-side processing while a loading screen (or other screen) is displayed to the client. In a regular (HTTP) environment, this process can run several minutes with no timeouts. In an https environm...
No FTP site? No problem
Requirement: Build a script to pull a file stored online. Real life example: The data provider is happy to update the file published online but won't setup an FTP account for you to grab the file. Solution: Quick and easy using perl LWP (see http:...
Finding out what you don’t know
Requirement: In Oracle, display the first row of data from a table with each data element separated by a delimiter.. The column names & number of columns in the table cannot be hardcoded as they are likely to change over time. Real-life example: U...
How to include code in Posterous
So the first question I have is how do you publish code samples in Posterous (the blogging software I use)? First link I've found in looking for this is: http://blog.posterous.com/announcing-markdown-support. According to the site,
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