It’s no mystery to anyone who’s been on Facebook for more than a week that one of its biggest boons — and, in the finest Zen tradition, one of its most nagging banes — is the plethora of third-party applications that leverage its data. Virtually all the value in Facebook is crowdsourced — that is, [...]
Archive of posts tagged Security
Working With The Authorize.net Customer Information Manager (CIM), Part 1: Overview
I’m going to spend several posts discussing authorize.net’s Customer Information Manager, a Web service for storing and retrieving personally identifiable information about the people who place credit card orders on your Web site. Today, I’m focusing solely on an overview of CIM: What it is, how it works, why it works that way, and approaches [...]
Retaining Values In A Form Following PHP Postback And Clearing Form Values After Successful PHP Form Processing
Asked recently on Yahoo! Answers: Re-post data to PHP form when invalid? I was just wondering, if I have PHP validation on a field of a large form, say for example the e-mail isn’t an e-mail (I know how to check that) and it sets header location to ?error=1 it does all that fine, but [...]
Meet The New Host, Same As The Old Host
Well, I gave DreamHost PS a try. And let me tell you, it works great. So why is this blog back on my DreamHost shared account? A few reasons; mostly, there’s no payoff between the cost and the performance difference, at least for this blog. I got in on DreamHost PS as part of a [...]
Ensuring JavaScript Is Enabled Before Displaying Content On A Web Page
I’ve previously noted that password-protection schemes that depend on JavaScript alone are entirely pointless. No matter how hard you try to obfuscate, mask or hide efforts to protect JavaScript code, anyone with a bit of knowledge and a bit of time on his hands can retrieve and view all your code, including all your username [...]
Ludicrous But Intriguing: A JavaScript Login System That Hides Content And Prevents Login Flooding
Asked recently on Yahoo! Answers: Password control in javascript? i have to design a program to allow access to a website to people who have the correct pin/ The pin is a 4-digit number (1000-4000).The program should have 2 options. 1. Enter the Pinand if is correct(between 1000 and 4000) the website will be accessed. [...]
