October 2007
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Blog entries from October 2007.
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Weekly Web Hack - Sanitizing user inputs against XSS
In this Weekly Web Hack, I'll explain why some popular user input sanitization schemes can be insufficient in stopping XSS vulnerabilities...
By the end of this article, you should be able to:
- Identify when HTML entity encoding is appropriate,
- Choose between several encoding schemes depending on use-case
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--Jim R. Wilson 23:28, 28 October 2007 (MST)
Weighted Companion Cube Pumpkin
Like many of you, I too was disheartened when forced to euthanize my Weighted Companion Cube. To help cope with my grief, I have enshrined her memory in pumpkin form...
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--Jim R. Wilson 22:10, 28 October 2007 (MST)
Weekly Web Hack - Absolutely relative
In this Weekly Web Hack, I'll demonstrate how to have semantically ordered HTML elements appear visually reordered static width, center floated, single column page...
By the end of this article, you should be able to:
- Make a centered single column layout in HTML/CSS (easy to do, and popular for blogs).
- Reorder the major elements, putting the most important info first (CSS).
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--Jim R. Wilson 23:43, 21 October 2007 (MST)
New Facebook App - Does nothing
"Does nothing" is my facebook app. It does nothing, seriously.
Get Does nothing today and tell all your friends!
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--Jim R. Wilson 11:27, 19 October 2007 (MST)
Weekly Web Hack - Data URIs and Inline Images
In this edition of the Weekly Web Hack, I'll explain how data URIs work and give some practical examples when you might want to use them in your own project...
By the end of this article, you should be able to:
- Determine whether a particular use-case is suitable for inline data,
- Understand the data: URI scheme and available encodings,
- Use data URIs to embed image (and other) data directly into an HTML or CSS file.
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--Jim R. Wilson 04:21, 15 October 2007 (MST)
Weekly Web Hack - What Would Google Suggest?
In this first edition of the Weekly Web Hack, I'll explain how Google Suggest operates under the hood, and how you can leverage its architecture to place search suggestions into your own page...
By the end of this article, you should be able to:
- Understand Google Suggest's request URL structure and response body,
- Roll your own autocomplete implementation utilizing Google's suggest data.
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--Jim R. Wilson 01:28, 8 October 2007 (MST)
Announcing the Weekly Web Hack
In January 2007, I mentioned that it was my goal of mine to put out at least one good article every week. I have been little lax in this duty of late, and so I am instituting a new recurring feature on the Jimbojw.com blog: the Weekly Web Hack. Each week at a regular time I will publish a new Web Hack, which may be a mashup, dissection of a web service or site, or maybe a tutorial on how to do something clever. I haven't completely decided yet.
There are a few things you can count on though: it will be something to do with the Web, it will be tricky or non-obvious, and hopefully it'll present a new way of using an existing piece of software or webrastucture in a novel way. So stay tuned!
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--Jim R. Wilson 23:32, 7 October 2007 (MST)
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