Day: 29 December 2008

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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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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