2014
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How Secure is the Internet of Things?
Feb 22
How secure are you? Really?
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DVCS is Broken
Feb 21
While Git (and Mercurial) is a lifesaver when it comes to easily branching, tagging, and resolving merge conflicts, Subversion (and TFS and the like) is superior when it comes to sub-project management.
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Full-Stack Application Development
Feb 20
My ideal blogging app/content management system/application platform would take the entire stack into account.
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Understanding Parallel Processing
Feb 17
When I explain to people that I enjoy writing code in C# more than PHP, they scratch their collective heads and, with a quizzical look, always respond, “why?” My biggest reason: I really enjoy working with parallel processing.
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Data Leakage – Part 2
Feb 15
When you click a link on a page, your browser takes that page’s URL and sends it along with you as the “Referer” header. The site you end up on can then track exactly which sites are sending traffic. If your site is private (i.e. an internal company blog) and you link to an external…
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Is Your TV Watching You?
Feb 13
Have you considered your new TV might be spying on you?
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WordPress Core Proposal: Offline Editor
Feb 12
What would you want to see in an offline editor for WordPress? How would you approach building it? Would it be a core feature, plugin material, or something else entirely?
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A Hack a Day Keeps the Boredom at Bay
Feb 11
I do a lot of fancy work with WordPress that, at times, has me pulling my hair out in frustration with the lack of (or uselessness of) certain hooks in WordPress core. At the same time, I never hack core.
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Hitting a Stride
Feb 10
Seeing athletes who’ve trained for a half decade just to put on a few minute (or in rare cases an hour) long performance is breathtaking. To see hours and hours of effort over weeks, months, and years culminate to a brief moment in front of the camera is awe-inspiring.
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Daily Dogfooding
Feb 8
I am appalled by the number of people who work with WordPress for a living but don’t use it outside of work.
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Just Beneath the Surface
Feb 7
When I work with new software developers, more often than not I find myself urging patience over expedience.
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Inbox: How do I remove jQuery
Feb 6
A message in my inbox this week asked for help removing jQuery from the front-end of a site. In this particular case, jQuery wasn’t being used and just slowed down the page.