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Cosine Jeremiah and his Musings | Life and Ruby and Security - Part 2
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Cosine Jeremiah and his Musings. Life and Ruby and Security. August 23rd, 2008. I have spent a lot of hours in the past week working with Mephisto. Mephisto is a blogging platform with aims of eventually being a full-fledged CMS. Overall I like it, but I am uncertain if it is a platform I ought to continue working with at this point. Here are the highlights of the pros:. It is written in Rails. Which is a platform I know well and therefore can extend rather easily. But there are also the cons:. Mephisto ...
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Security | Cosine Jeremiah and his Musings
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Cosine Jeremiah and his Musings. Life and Ruby and Security. Category Archive for 'Security'. Laquo; Previous Entries. Next Page ». Rails, Django, and Just-Barely-Enough CSRF Protection. Saturday, April 10th, 2010. Chisec 16 and C. Monday, March 3rd, 2008. Security Missing in Oracle Best Practices. Tuesday, February 12th, 2008. Recently Oracle released a 272 page document outlining some recommended best practices when implementing SOA with its suite: http:/ download.oracle.com/technology/tech/soa...I hav...
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October, 2008 | Cosine Jeremiah and his Musings
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Cosine Jeremiah and his Musings. Life and Ruby and Security. Archive for October, 2008. Friday, October 10th, 2008. I wrote a little spreadsheet template language for Excel VBA (Visual Basic for Applications). What for? Say you have a report you create often, and you’re thinking of making a macro in Excel to help automate its generation. You want to report on the sales of your widgets from multiple locations, and you already have […]. Enter your search terms. Weblog archives for October, 2008.
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November, 2008 | Cosine Jeremiah and his Musings
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Cosine Jeremiah and his Musings. Life and Ruby and Security. Archive for November, 2008. AVLTree 0.1.4 Released. Sunday, November 16th, 2008. This morning I released AVLTree version 0.1.4. The difference from version 0.1.3 is an idea from modifications made to the code by the Samhain folks to improve performance. If you are not familiar with my AVLTree project, it is a C library that implements AVL trees and provides an interface for indexing and iterating over […]. Enter your search terms.
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Recommended Books | Cosine Jeremiah and his Musings
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Cosine Jeremiah and his Musings. Life and Ruby and Security. Here’s a list of some books I recommend. Good stuff, ya? First the Ruby Books:. If you program computers, you need to learn Ruby. Why? Unless you have already learned Lisp, you need to know Ruby to understand some programming paradigms that other languages just do not have. Go learn Ruby, and then go back to using Java at your fun day job. You also want something on security (yes you do! Or a Hacme Bank. Feed your Unix fancy:. But if you build ...
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Rise of the Mammals | Cosine Jeremiah and his Musings
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Cosine Jeremiah and his Musings. Life and Ruby and Security. Laquo; AVLTree 0.1.4 Released. Thoughts on Pair Programming. January 6th, 2009. Rise of the Mammals. It is 2009, and it looks like the sky is falling. Perhaps it is, just a little. I think it is a good thing. How can I say that as people are losing their jobs? Let me repeat one thing before I sign off: invest in your local mammals. Feed them now so they will be strong enough to feed you back when you need them. Trackback is currently closed.
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Thoughts on Pair Programming | Cosine Jeremiah and his Musings
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Cosine Jeremiah and his Musings. Life and Ruby and Security. Laquo; Rise of the Mammals. Rails, Django, and Just-Barely-Enough CSRF Protection. March 10th, 2010. Thoughts on Pair Programming. I have recently been exposed to the first pair programming in my career, and I want to quickly share some thoughts on it. Your partner prevents you from being lazy. Your heart leaps in joy and later, when you go home for the day, you smile just a little more when your sweetheart asks, how was work today, honey?
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January, 2009 | Cosine Jeremiah and his Musings
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Cosine Jeremiah and his Musings. Life and Ruby and Security. Archive for January, 2009. Rise of the Mammals. Tuesday, January 6th, 2009. It is 2009, and it looks like the sky is falling. Perhaps it is, just a little. I think it is a good thing. How can I say that as people are losing their jobs? It is easy if you look at what will bring the greatest good to the greatest number of people. For […]. Enter your search terms. You are currently browsing the Cosine Jeremiah and his Musings.
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AVLTree 0.1.4 Released | Cosine Jeremiah and his Musings
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Cosine Jeremiah and his Musings. Life and Ruby and Security. Laquo; Templating in Excel. Rise of the Mammals. November 16th, 2008. AVLTree 0.1.4 Released. This morning I released AVLTree. Version 0.1.4. The difference from version 0.1.3 is an idea from modifications made to the code by the Samhain. Folks to improve performance. You can skip to the end and leave a comments. Trackback is currently closed. Trackback URI: http:/ cosine.org/2008/11/16/avltree-014-released/trackback/. Comments RSS 2.0.
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Rails, Django, and Just-Barely-Enough CSRF Protection | Cosine Jeremiah and his Musings
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Cosine Jeremiah and his Musings. Life and Ruby and Security. Laquo; Thoughts on Pair Programming. April 10th, 2010. Rails, Django, and Just-Barely-Enough CSRF Protection. Much thanks to my friend Cory Scott of Matasano. For bringing this to my attention. Okay, fine sort of. I have a beef with this. In my opinion, if a site has data worth protecting with an anti-CSRF authenticity token, there’s no reason not to use it for all requests that can alter that data. Doing the bare minimum is what I call. Even w...
