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Last week there was a fair amount of buzz about Wordpress security issues. Here’s an Information Week article and also a short blurb from IT World in case you’re not a Wordpress user… Continue reading

I have been bouncing between the RadRails and NetBeans IDEs for quite some time now. I like them both a lot, but I have not been able to make RadRails Test::Unit work 100%… Continue reading

Back in the old days (pre-2000), the various flavors of UNIX had very little security other than the “baked-in” stuff such as encrypted passwords, root vs normal users, the standard file permissions, etc. Later, things… Continue reading

If I wrote code all day, every day, I’m sure I could become really good at manipulating regular expressions. The obscure syntax is sort of Zen-like with a large dose of Perl obfuscation-fu. A one-liner… Continue reading

Watir – Web Application Testing in Ruby – I’m thinking about adding this as part of my standard Rails integration tests. I like the idea of capturing keystokes that a user might actually run. Plus… Continue reading | 2 Comments

(Professionals on closed course. Do not attempt this at home.)

I love my new company, but it’s an IT staffing outfit, not a software development organization. Sure, it would have been… Continue reading

A short deviation from the technical content of this blog, as I complete my first week at the new job. (Shameless promotion of my new employer here.) There are a lot of… Continue reading | 1 Comment

Summarizing all I learned in one place….

I use the KDE window manager on Linux mainly because it’s been the de facto standard for the semiconductor industry since the Dark Ages, and I don’t… Continue reading

My Linux server is running Fedora Core 8 – pretty old by Internet standards (the bleeding edge is FC 11). But now that the kernel patches have died off, my VMware Server 2.0 installation is… Continue reading

It’s highly unlikely that I’ll make it to RailsConf this year, due to continuing employment uncertainties. Too bad, since it’s close by in Las Vegas. Vegas is hurting, so I understand… Continue reading