Technology

2014

• WordPress Database Encryption

  Sept 26

  How reasonable is the suggestion that WordPress encrypt its database? Really?

  5 min · cryptography · infrastructure

• Clean up your clutter

  Sept 25

  Global variables are bad, clutter your code, and can be a major stumbling project in terms of project maintainability. Don’t use them.

  3 min · PHP · software design

• Ultra-rapid Prototyping

  Sept 23

  I built an app last night that allows me to look up bus arrival times via SMS. It took me 2 hours. Node is incredible!

  4 min · entrepreneurship · JavaScript

• Security, Legal Bypass, Warrants, and Apple

  Sept 21

  Apple has announced they won’t be unlocking iOS 8 phones in response to warrants, not as a point of policy, but because the system they’ve built won’t allow it.

  5 min · authentication · cryptography

• If you’re not part of the solution …

  Sept 20

  I use WordPress daily; I critique it almost as frequently. Are my suggestions contributing to a solution or just further conflating the problem?

  2 min · code quality · WordPress

• DNS and Cross-Site Scripting

  Sept 19

  One of the first things on any security auditor’s list is checking to see if a site is vulnerable to cross-site scripting (XSS).

  3 min · infrastructure · vulnerabilities

• Freedom of Information

  Sept 16

  A world where the information to which we have access is tightly controlled is a world in which democracy, free thought, and liberty dies.

  4 min · policy

• Birthdays and Three-way Hash Collisions

  Sept 15

  Let’s work out the probability that, in a given group of individuals, at least three share a birthday.

  2 min · cryptography · data

• WordPress and Default Themes

  Sept 14

  First we had Twenty Ten. Then came Twenty Eleven. Then came the potential of a new default theme every year. We’re doing it wrong.

  3 min · WordPress

• 7 Things WordPress Developers do Right

  Sept 11

  I recognize a lot of what we, in the WordPress community, do wrong, but I also want to highlight several things we do right.

  4 min · consulting · WordPress

• Inbox: Is self-learning enough?

  Sept 9

  Has a lack of formal computer education caused issues in my career? Absolutely not.

  3 min · career · learning

• The Birthday Paradox

  Sept 8

  There’s a paradox in statistics that states, in a group of 23 people, the chance that two people having the same birthday is 50%.

  4 min · cryptography · data