Month: December 2008
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HttpOnly Session Cookies using ActiveRecordStore in Rails 2.2
If you're using CookieStore to manage sessions in your Ruby on Rails application, Rails 2.2 provides the great feature that you're now able to use HTTPOnly cookies. These are a great benefit because, for compatible web browsers, they dramatically reduce the risk of a Cross Site Scripting (XSS) attack being able to be used to …
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The Fife Diet from Kamikaze Cookery
I've been following Kamikaze Cookery (three geeks doing cookery... with science!) for a while now, and it's got some real potential, but what really sold me on it was their recent series on the Fife diet (yeah, I know, it's been out for ages, but I've been busy so my RSS reader's been brim-full and …
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Kissing At Midnight
In a fleeting thought, as I passed the greengrocer hanging our mistletoe outside his shop this morning, I found myself thinking about the unusual situation I'm in, in that I'll this year be spending New Year's Eve with both of mygirlfriends.
Who do I kiss at midnight?
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'Nena' - Christmas Comes Early For Dan
I thought I'd say a little bit about my new home desktop computer, because it occurs to me that I hadn't said anything about it yet.
Dualitoo, my PC of the last few years, kicked the bucket on Friday a few weeks back, at a most inopportune time - I was due to write heaps of … -
SmartData's Christmas Message
In case anybody's interested, SmartData's animated Christmas card (with a little help from JibJab) is now online. Watch it here.
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SmartData Merry Christmas 2008
SmartData want to wish you a merry Christmas and happy software!
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The Christmas Tree Is Up
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OMG Child Pr0n (or is it?)
What a mess this is turning into! I am of course referring to the UK-wide internet censorship of a Wikipedia page (the one about the Scorpions album, Virgin Killer - if that last link doesn't work, you're among those affected).
The thinking is, according to the Internet Watch Foundation, that the cover of the 1976 album … -
Environmental Awareness and Yes, I'm Still Busy
The Technium's just hosted a seminar on environmental awareness. Walking past the conference room a few minutes ago, I noticed that the folks running the event had managed to leave running the projector and all of the lights, despite the fact that it had ended some time ago. Ah, the irony.
Went to a céilidh at …