Software: Cautionary Tales
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Sometimes we only learn from personal experience. Learn from my mistakes so you don’t have to live through them yourself.
Technology
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Modular Code
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Composer is a potential solution for theme/plugin dependencies in WordPress. But it will take some time before we flesh out the solution fully.
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WordPress Database Encryption
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How reasonable is the suggestion that WordPress encrypt its database? Really?
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Clean up your clutter
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Global variables are bad, clutter your code, and can be a major stumbling project in terms of project maintainability. Don’t use them.
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Ultra-rapid Prototyping
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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!
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Security, Legal Bypass, Warrants, and Apple
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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.
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If you’re not part of the solution …
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I use WordPress daily; I critique it almost as frequently. Are my suggestions contributing to a solution or just further conflating the problem?
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DNS and Cross-Site Scripting
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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).
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Freedom of Information
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A world where the information to which we have access is tightly controlled is a world in which democracy, free thought, and liberty dies.
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Birthdays and Three-way Hash Collisions
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Let’s work out the probability that, in a given group of individuals, at least three share a birthday.