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Pictured above is a screenshot of Facebook’s new layout, with private information blocked out in red and numbered locations for reference. Apparently, not all users have been transitioned to the new layout just yet. Those who have are almost unanimously disappointed with the changes. Here is a brief rundown of the reasons I dislike this [...]
The new iPhone 3G S was released on Friday, and I was there near the front of the line to be among the first (several thousands of) people to get one. Prior to this, I had a really cheap Samsung flip-phone, and before that I had an LG version of the RAZR, on which I [...]
The client is not a programmer, and does not understand “back-end” work. My client called me up angrily many, many times calling me lazy and accusing me of doing nothing on his site. “I don’t see any changes!” he said. The client doesn’t understand that when you are building a huge form, it is not just dragging and dropping fields onto a canvas. You are doing client-side and server-side validation, captchas, maybe database work and protection against MySQL injection, email formatting, etc etc etc. That little form that looks like it would take 15 minutes ended up taking 4 hours, but the client doesn’t get it. Make sure you quote, as best you can, how long it will really take to get that _______ done, and explain why!
Being a computer security enthusiast for the past seven or more years, I have come across a number of interesting and useful technologies and methods for both establishing a personal security culture, and exploiting systems to bypass their security features. A very well-known technology in the former category is PGP, an acronym standing for “Pretty [...]